Page 35 of A Rogue's Downfall
“You have a lovely way of pronouncing ‘yes,’ ” he said, lowering his head to kiss her throat. “A week isan awfully long time to wait, my love.”
“Mmm,” she said, arching her body against his.
“If it were not for the amazon,” he said, his hands coming up to cup and caress her breasts, “I might betempted to try a few more nocturnal excursions.”
“Mmm,” she said.
“We will have to set her at the foot of someone else’s bed next week,” he said, sliding his hands over herwaist and hips and around to cup her buttocks and drawher more snugly against the core of his own desire.
“Mmm,” she said.
He set his mouth to hers again, opened it beneath his own, and thrust his tongue inside deeply, once,twice, before withdrawing it and drawing back his headan inch.
“Caroline,” he said, smoothing one hand over her sun-warmed auburn hair, “it is not just this I want ofyou, you know. It isyou.I have wanted bodies before.I have never wanted a person. I want you. I want tojoin my body to yours so that we will be closer thanclose, so that we will share everything there is to beshared. I am on fire for you, as you can feel. But foryou, not just for the lovely body that houses you.”
She smiled slowly at him. “Joining your body to mine,” she said. “Do you know how the very thoughtturns me weak at the knees, Alistair? Don’t expect ashy bride. I am afraid I will be shockingly eager. Andthe rest of what you said too. Oh, that turns me weakall over. That is how love differs from merely being inlove, does it not? Wanting the other’s body and everything else too, right through to the soul.”
“Speaking of bodies.” He grinned at her.
“Mmm, yes,” she said, wrapping her arms about his neck and smiling eagerly at him. “What was it you weresaying, Alistair?”
“This, I believe,” he said, opening his mouth over hers again.
