Sussex Summer
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When Jane made no reply, he turned her face to his. “You really have no choice, Jane. We shall be alone together tonight, at an inn if not in the forest. We are too far away from Staplefield or any other village I know of to find proper accommodation, and my horse is too tired to press.”
Jane looked into Edward’s hazel eyes, and her resistance began to crumble. Her shoulder felt tinglingly aware of his arm and as his finger slowly caressed her cheek, her breath came short and shallow.
Edward noticed as well, and bent to kiss her, a kiss that soon became passionate and demanding.
Jane was losing sense of where she was when a nudge on her shoulder caused her to jump, and then laughed when he saw Edward’s horse, who had come to remind them he was also there.
“It is fortunate we are not walking,” Edward said, taking the reins and helping Jane up on his horse’s back,
“If it had been Ariel, no doubt we would be,” Jane said, laughing, “He is much too independent to wait patiently for his rider.”
Edward went to fetch the basket that had been left for them and tied it securely on the horse. He swung up behind Jane and they began going slowly down the road.
Jane, remembering Lord Blackwood’s words, banished the last of her reservations and leaned back onto Edward’s chest. His arms tightened about her and he kissed her neck softly. The motion of the horse and the warmth of Edward’s body against hers began to make Jane sleepy.
“Do you think you can believe in my love at last, my English rose?” Edward asked gently.
“Yes, but Jane is from the French,” she reminded him sleepily.
Copyright © 1990 by Lucile Moore
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