it for rousing the blood.’
Arabella felt herself becoming flustered. Had she, after all, taken on more of a challenge in becoming Darius’s wife than she was capable of dealing with?
Darius had been married before, and had indulged in a prodigious number of affairs with ladies both in the ton and out of it. In comparison to those women Arabella knew herself to be very young and inexperienced. Perhaps too much so to sustain the interest of a man as experienced as Darius undoubtedly was?
It was a little late for her to be having second thoughts now, when the wedding had already taken place and she would shortly be retiring for the night with her husband to Carlyne House!
She looked searchingly into his face. ‘I believe, sir, that you are deliberately trying to alarm me …’
His mouth quirked. ‘Am I?’
‘Yes.’ Arabella felt more and more confident of the fact as she saw the humour deepen in his vivid blue eyes. ‘It is very cruel of you to tease me in this way, Darius.’
He raised a wicked brow. ‘Perhaps in the same way it was cruel of you to tease me this past week?’
Her eyes widened. ‘I was not aware of indulging in any such teasing.’
She was so very young, Darius realised ruefully. And so completely unaware, it seemed, of the physical provocation of the creamy swell of her breasts and the way her hips swayed so seductively beneath the soft material of her gown when she walked. Of the perfume that he had begun to associate only with her—a soft and enticing floral, womanly scent that he knew belonged uniquely to Arabella.
Of how the soft gold of her curls enticed him to release those tresses from their pins and allow them to tumble down the length of her slender spine.
Of how the soft fullness of her mouth just begged to be kissed.
In fact, it was all he could do now not to totally scandalise their wedding guests by taking his wife in his arms and kissing her in a thorough manner that was guaranteed to shock the avidly watching ton and no doubt confirm all their suspicions!
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