Quite an Adventure ~ Excerpt from 'A Code of Wonder'
“You’ve had quite an adventure for a country miss.”
She squeezed Derrick’s immense arm and looked into his familiar comforting eyes. “Will there be a scandal? I just couldn’t bear to bring any more pain to my mother. She’s suffered badly after our banishment in the country… all because of the cruelty of my father.”
“No. Wessex is a gentleman. He can be trusted to reveal nothing.”
“And I won’t be forced to marry him? Won’t I be ruined if anyone finds out about Lord Wessex undressing me?”
Derrick paused on the landing.
“Did more happen between you and Wessex…? Did he…?”
To hear the brave man, viewed as invincible, stammer, made her smile for the first time in a while. The blush spreading across his cheeks was so out of character.
“Only that he kissed me.” She tried to sound nonchalant as if being kissed by a virile and handsome naked man was a routine occurrence in her life. “I can’t fault his desire since I believe any man near a naked woman might attempt liberties. And he did explain that he was only trying to wake me.” She would never forget how tenderly he’d treated her. The way he’d cupped her face between his big rough hands. His lips had been soft and warm, causing heady and unfamiliar sensations.
A Code of Wonder is part of the Regency holiday anthology, Snowed in with a Rogue.
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