Cedric c****d his head while he waited in the parlor, listening to the sound of Anne’s laughter. It was light yet slightly husky, a laugh better heard in bed after her lover had pleasured her until she was limp and sated.
Cedric smiled. Soon I will be that man. The kiss he’d given her today had been unplanned, but no less satisfying. She shouldn’t have bitten him. For some reason that had made him as hard as a marble statue, and it had taken all his strength to keep from throwing her onto the settee and showing her how much he liked to bite back. She wouldn’t have fought him for very long, but she was still too resistant to him. She would have used his actions to paint him the villain.
It was better to wait, to seduce slowly. Being both parent and brother to his two sisters, he’d been ex
