Page 25 of Seducing Sophia (Scholars of Seduction)

What had come over him? A month ago he’d have relished the chance to seduce a woman, to find his release inside her body then move on to the next.

But, for the first time, he found himself wanting to claim her heart as well as her body.

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The following morning,Adrian woke to the sound of his valet scratching about in the room next door. He rolled over and glanced at the clock over the fireplace.

He’d overslept—for the first time in years.

His military training had instilled the habit of rising with the lark. But not today.

It didn’t take a scholar to ascertain the cause. The memory of last night’s dream still warmed his blood. The ache in his groin told him all he needed to know. His cock was harder than iron—painfully so, straining against the bedsheets.

He closed his eyes against the noise next door, which was growing louder—Jenkins’s not-so-subtle way of waking him.

Not yet…

The memory of those soft lips was still imprinted in his mind.

Soft, warm, inviting lips.

Lips eager to please, eager to service.

That’s it, my Sophia…

Lips wrapped around his cock while she kneeled before him, face flushed with arousal, her hair mussed and tumbling over her shoulders, while he buried his fist in her locks and held her close.

Take me—take all of me…

His balls ached with need and he grasped his length, picturing her hands playing him like the instrument she had mastered, her own murmurs of pleasure vibrating through his very bones until he could withstand the pressure no longer.

He thrust his hips and with a shout, he spilled onto the bedsheet.

Almost at once, a deep cough sounded next door, followed by silence. His cheeks warming with shame, Adrian pulled back the sheet, and climbed out of bed.

What did it matter if his valet had heard him? Better that than spend the rest of the day with a cockstand large enough for all the world to see. All red-blooded men had healthy dreams, from as soon as they were old enough to rut. They released the tension from those dreams into the body of the next available woman willing to warm his bed.

The only difference now, was that Adrian had no desire to have a woman in his bed again.

Unless it was Sophia.

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