his motions cutting off Martin midsentence as Martin watched Jonathan approach her. In one swift motion, Martin stepped between Jonathan and her. His eyes narrowed, and he stared down at Jonathan, daring him to step around him.
“But…but I…she…” Jonathan pointed back and forth between himself and her. “We.”
“No!” Martin said in a firm voice that all but growled. “There is no ‘we’ where she and you are concerned.”
Jonathan’s eyes went wide, and he turned to search Jane’s face. “Jane.” He bowed his head. “I’m glad you are well.”
Martin stepped aside to let him pass, and Jonathan hastily pulled open the door and went out into the night.
Jane swallowed hard. She’d just passed up her one chance at respectability. But Martin had come for her. Martin! Her entire body lit like a fire at his nearness.
“My dear girl.” Her father grasped her hand and winked. “My lord. You will stay with us this night so we can get to know our new family member.”
“I’m sorry, sir. I have estate business to be handled in the morning. We will head back to Tremarctos this night.”
“Very well, very well.”
“If you so choose, I will send a coach for you in one month’s time, and you and Mrs. Milton can journey to Tremarctos for an extended visit.”
Oh! That would be horrid! What would her family think of the strangeness that occurred in that house?
“So be it! That will do nicely, don’t you think, Mary?” Her father turned toward the kitchen. “Oh, Mary!”
All three of them rushed to her mother, who groaned in her faint as her legs twitched on the floor.
Jane’s father knelt down to help her mother to her feet, and Martin’s warm fingers wrapped about Jane’s arm, pulling her back firmly against his length. His hand traveled down her arm, eliciting small tremors in his touch’s wake; then he laced his fingers in hers. His erection pressed into her bum.
Jane, Jane. I need you, Jane. I need you more than any of that romantic clad trap I spouted to your family. He spoke to her mind.
She closed her eyes as aroused awareness skittered about her skin. Did he mean it?
I should have warned you about the smell of other threatening men…. His chest rumbled in a suppressed chuckle against her back.
What? She turned and peered at him, and his lip quirked. “You mean to tell me I cast up my crumpets because Jonathan got too close to me?” she whispered.
“Something like that.” He pressed his lips to her ear, and his frame shook.
Had he just barely suppressed changing when he saw Jonathan?
“Are you well?”
As soon as I am inside you, I will be.
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