Excerpt, Lord Ashley’s Beautiful Alibi, All rights reserved, Cerise Deland. Copyright 2024.
“We must stop,” Augustine murmured, though like a besotted girl, she arched her neck to give him greater access. She could not wish him gone—and oh, how she wanted him to stay and give her more of his lips and his arms and the stories of his childhood. Through those brief tales, he had become a boy, a solemn and vital person whom she could trust for the moment, for the task, for her needs. But no more. Not a bit more….
He lingered, his lips on her throat and her shoulder as he seemed to inhale every essence of her. With a small blessing of his open mouth to the hollow of her throat, he drew back.
He took his time, his enchanting ice grey eyes examining her. With deft moves, he fluffed the ruffle at her bodice and pulled down her skirts over her knees.
“Thank you,” she said with a true smile, though she breathed rapidly, in no way recovered from his thrall. “We have done a good job of displaying our interest in each other.”
“Have we?” Ashley’s bass voice was gruff, the question in his voice asking a thousand more things than the obvious.
She nodded, hiding her gulp. “Yes, just now, two have come to the doors and left.”
“Polite of them,” he said and cupped her cheek. “We cannot go in yet to the salon.”
“No?” Her mind was too full of him, her question too whimsical.
“You are flushed. And I am not fit to face anyone.” His brows rose by little degrees to reach the black shock of hair that had fallen—with her help she was sure,—over his broad brow.
She giggled.
He rolled his eyes and hands on his hips, considered the stars.
“How long do you need?” Lured, she glanced down. My, my. She flashed him a wicked pout.
“Hours, if you keep that up! You may not have had lovers, darling, but you’ve learned how to entice a man!”
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