CHAPTER SIX“No!” Aurora cried, struggling to free herself from Lord Moreton’s tight hold on her arm.
“Ah! Why do you hide yourself away like this?”
He slurred, his lisp more pronounced than ever and he lunged forward through the door, so that his face came close to hers as she caught the smell of wine on his breath.
“How could you cause me such unendurable pain?” he whinnied. “You are such teasing capricious creatures – you women! You know only too well that to deny us is to increase our ardour for you!”
Lord Moreton’s grip on her wrist tightened sharply and Aurora bit her lip from the pain.
He seemed to be extremely short of breath and was puffing and panting as he loomed over her.
“My angel, you know that you are mine,” he hissed, “mine for now and forever.”
He leaned forward a
