HERO: Captain Logan Mackenzie. Scottish. Alpha. For years received letters from a supposed fiance he’d never met but plans on rectifying that very soon.

HEROINE: Miss Madeline Gracechurch. English. Innocent. Shy. Built an entire relationship to a fictional man who turns out to be not so fictional after all.

She whispered, “This is really happening, isn’t it?”

In answer, he pressed his lips to hers.

And Maddie went still. The lightning bolt of sensual expertise she’d been hoping for didn’t arrive. She was glued to his face, staring at his cheekbone. She had no idea what she was supposed to do.

Close your eyes, ninny.

Maybe, if she was very still and paid close attention, her idiocy wouldn’t be obvious. Perhaps he could teach her to kiss, in the same way the sky taught the loch to be blue.

It was a stupid risk, kissing her this soon.

Logan realized it the moment his lips met hers and she went rigid in response. Bloody hell. If this embrace went wrong, he could scare her off and his grand plans would be over before they began.

That meant his challenge was plain.

He had to make sure this kiss went right.

“Hush, mo chride. Softly now.”

He brushed his lips over hers in brief passes, with all the patience and tenderness a man like him could muster—which wasn’t a great deal. But before long she was responding in a shy, sweet way. Her lips brushed his, too.
The same hands that had flattened against his chest to hold him back now clutched at his lapels, drawing him closer.

Her lips parted beneath his, and he swept his tongue between them. A small sigh eased from the back of her throat, encouraging and sweet. He explored her mouth with slow, languid strokes.

And then his patience was rewarded, when her tongue touched lightly to his.

Holy God. His knees almost buckled.

 

Tessa Dare’s When A Scott Ties The Knot will be available for purchase August 25, 2015. Check back on August 24th to read May’s review.

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