WidowsWickedWish (32 page)
Authors: Lynne Barron
Olivia leaned back in his arms and met his smiling eyes,
eyes as blue as the sky and filled with tenderness and mischief and love.
“Thank you, Jack. Thank you, thank you. A thousand times, thank you.”
“You’re welcome,” he replied with a grin. “What have I
done?”
“What have you done?” She peppered kisses across his
chiseled cheeks, along the hard angle of his jaw, and over the cleft of his
chin. “You sent that wonderful man to me. I didn’t know who he was. He just
appeared in the garden as if by magic. The answer to my greatest wish.”
“What man? Olivia, you aren’t making sense.”
“How did you convince him to make the journey?” She kissed
along his forehead, her fingers sifting through his silky hair. “He said you’d
written. What did you say in your letter?”
“What letter? What man?”
“Fanny was terribly rude to him, but he paid her no mind.”
She kissed a path down his not quite patrician nose, over the slight bump, and
dipped down to buss one corner of his mouth then the other. “All of his
attention was for Charlie. Oh, Jack, how will I ever thank you?”
“Olivia, I don’t know what you are talking about. What man?”
“I love you. I love you. I love.” She captured his lips,
sealing their mouths together, sweeping her tongue in find his, to stroke and
caress.
“What is the world coming to?”
The strident voice barely penetrated her mind, lingered just
on the fringes of her dizzy thoughts as Jack returned her kiss, one hand sliding
down to cup her bottom.
“Who is that wicked woman?”
Olivia broke the kiss, lifted her head to smile at Lady
Casterbury. “It is I, my lady, the wicked Mrs. Bentley.”
“Good gracious, when your lady mother hears of your
behavior,” Lady Casterbury huffed out.
“You’d best run along,” Olivia replied, “you wouldn’t want
some other lady to steal your thunder.”
Jack tossed back his head and let lose a roar of laugher,
his big body shaking with it. Olivia smiled, dismissing the lady without
another word.
“I got it right, didn’t I?” she asked.
“That you did,” he agreed, his laughter falling away. “Say
it again.”
“Steal your thunder.”
“Olivia,” he growled, leaning in to press a quick, hard kiss
to her lips. “Again.”
“I love you.”
“Again.”
“I love you. I love you. I love you,” she repeated
obediently.
“And who is this man who appeared in your garden as if by
magic?” Jack’s warm breath drifted over her lips. “Should I be jealous?”
“Dr. Goldman, of course. He came just as soon as he received
your letter.”
“Olivia, I had planned to write to him, but I could not find
anyone who knew what had become of him.”
“But if you didn’t send for him…” Olivia leaned away to look
at him.
“Henry, perhaps?”
“Dr. Goldman said he wasn’t impressed with titles.”
“Speaking of titles,” Jack began.
“Would you mind terribly if I titled myself Mrs. Bentley?”
“Ah, Livy, the things you say.”
Lynne Barron always wanted to be a writer, if only she could
decide what to write. Everyone told her write about what you know. It wasn't
until she married her extremely romantic and surprisingly sensual husband that
she was able to follow that advice. Lynne lives in Florida with her husband,
son, and a menagerie of rescued pets..
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Widow’s Wicked Wish
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Electronic book publication March 2014
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