At Your Pleasure (42 page)

Adrian put one hand behind his back and cocked his knee, then stepped forward with unlikely lithe grace. She was reminded with a sudden pang of the last time she had seen him dance these figures. They had been at court, pretending to be strangers to one another, and all she had longed to do was race across the floor to him, to touch him—

Good heavens. “I have forgotten the steps!”

He grinned. “Then we will have to invent new ones, you and I.”

“Yes, I like that idea. But what I do remember—” She hesitated, clearing her throat, her face flaming at the shamelessness of her impulse. “The rest of your promise, sir—”

“Ah, yes.” His teeth flashing, he took her by the waist and leaned down to speak against her mouth. “Rejoice, my love,” he said.

“I do,” she whispered.

And then, heedless of the hooting cheers around them, he fulfilled his promise by putting his lips to hers.

They danced mouth to mouth as the fiddler played on.

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