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Scenic Sunday- The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare

October 9, 2022 by Angela Leave a Comment

Get over it, Ash told himself. Touch lips, hold for a count of three- no, two- and be done with the business altogether. Foolish to humor her, perhaps, but a perfunctory kiss seemed the fastest way to end the conversation.

What the kiss ended up being, however, was the fastest way to unravel him completely.

Softness. Warmth. The tastes of sweet and tart and cool. Parts of him went weak, and others were well on the way to rock-hard. She played on so many of his senses, he couldn’t sort them out. The kiss unfurled tendrils of madness in his brain, strangling his ability to think, to regain control…

To count.

How long had his lips been on hers? It might have been two beats, or three, or a thousand. He didn’t are anymore.

Her cheeks flushed beneath his palms, and he thought surely that heat must signal distress or embarrassment. But she didn’t pull away. She leaned closer, pressing her hand against his coat. Not only against his coat, but against the scars beneath it, and straight through all the pain and bitterness beneath that. The sensation spiraled through him like a whirlwind in a desert, catching bone-dry dust and tossing it up to the sky.

Everything was wrong. Everything was right. Everything was possible,

The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
Girl Meets Duke #1
Published August 22, 2017 by Avon

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