Читать книгу Captured for the Captain's Pleasure - Ann Lethbridge - Страница 2
Оглавление‘I was going to say that if either of us is pretty, it is you.’
Once more she’d surprised him. He couldn’t hold back his smile. ‘Men are not pretty.’
Alice shrugged. ‘Are they not? You are one of a kind. A darkly handsome man who exudes danger. The ladies of the ton would faint at your feet.’
‘Yet you deny your own prettiness when it is quite obvious to me?’
‘I’m a realist, Captain, and you’ve been on board ship for many months, no doubt.’
Her contempt for his compliment irritated like a sharp piece of gravel inside a stocking.
‘Let me tell you what I see. I see a Madonna’s calm face and eyes shadowed by secrets. I see a sun-kissed complexion and copper glints in silky hair. Intelligence sits on your brow. Your lips tempt mine.’ He paused. ‘I sense hot blood running beneath alabaster skin.’
She gasped, her eyes widening in maidenly horror.
He caught her shoulders, gazed into brown eyes pierced by emerald-green.
Longing hit him in the chest.
Her face tipped up and he cupped her cheeks in his hands. Before he could stop himself, he tasted her pliant velvet mouth…
