What The Duke Doesn't Know (2016) - Plot & Excerpts
The coals of a fire gleamed before him. Moonlight shone through bare windows, enough to show him the empty room and the naked woman curled against his chest. It all came back to him then, in a jumble of emotion—the ride, the crag, the bout of passion with the visitor he was supposed to be shepherding around the countryside. He’d let himself be swept away by circumstance, and desire. He looked down at Kawena, her breath soft in sleep. Her skin gleamed faintly in the firelight, and a tumble of dark hair hid her face. It would take a stronger man than he was to have resisted such beauty and spirit when she’d been so willing, so…insistent. He hadn’t taken advantage of her. He knew people would say so, and part of him wanted to argue that, of course, he had. That was said to be the way of the world. Men seduced when they could; women fell into their traps. But Kawena had been too involved in the dance, too enthusiastic, to credit it.
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