Authors: Connie Mason
Pure Temptation (30 page)
Feeling himself losing control, he brought himself over her and, with a groan, plunged deep, embedded tight within her scorching heat. Again and again he came inside her, pumping with mounting frenzy. He felt his seed rising, felt his blood thickening, burning him from within, yet he held back, waiting for Moira. He was but a moment away from spilling himself when he felt her nails sink into his shoulders and heard her cry out.
Her cry echoed in his throat as he claimed her mouth in a kiss that gave full vent to his hunger, his love, his total commitment to his wife. He thrust harder, deeper, faster, until he felt the explosive force of her contractions. His control shattered. With a cry of surrender, Jack joined his wife in a prolonged outpouring of bliss.
“I love you, Moira,” Jack whispered moments before she slipped into peaceful slumber.
Sighing in perfect contentment, Jack held Moira against his chest and smiled when he thought about the son or daughter she would give him. Either would be welcome, he decided, imagining a child who looked like Moira.
The child is a boy.
Jack jerked his head from the pillow and searched the dark recesses of the chamber for Lady Amelia. She was standing by the door, clothed in light and mist, her face radiant.
“You manage to show up at the oddest times,” he whispered so as not to awaken Moira. For the first time in his life he blushed, wondering if Lady Amelia had been present when he made love to Moira. “Are you positive Moira is going to give me a son?”
The child is a boy. But fear not, there will also be daughters.
“What? What did you say?”
You will have a son.
Lady Amelia folded her hands and smiled a secret smile. Jack watched in awe as her image flared with luminous intensity, forcing him to close his eyes. When he opened them again, she was gone, leaving naught but a pale flicker of light in her wake. Jack experienced an unaccountable sadness. He knew intuitively that his meddling ancestor had made her final visit. Hugging Moira tightly, he smiled wistfully. He was going to miss Lady Amelia.
Dear Readers,
This book is somewhat of a departure for me, but I hope you enjoyed it. Creating Lady Amelia was a delight. For my next book, I’m going back to the American West. I still depend on your letters to let me know what you enjoy. For a prompt reply, newsletter and bookmark, please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. I regret that I cannot reply unless a stamped envelope is enclosed. I hope my readers will understand. Sometimes the letters become separated from their SASE, and unless your address is placed on the letter itself, I am unable to reply. I hate disappointing any of my readers. Write to me in care of Leisure Books at the address listed at the front of this book.
All my romantic best,
Connie Mason
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TEMPT THE DEVIL
A TOUCH SO WICKED
VIKING WARRIOR
THE PRICE OF PLEASURE
HIGHLAND WARRIOR
A TASTE OF PARADISE
A
KNIGHTS
HONOR
GYPSY LOVER
THE PIRATE PRINCE
THE LAST ROGUE
THE LAIRD OF STONEHAVEN
TO LOVE A STRANGER
SEDUCED BY A ROGUE
TO TAME A RENEGADE
LIONHEART
A LOVE TO CHERISH
THE ROGUE AND THE HELLION
THE DRAGON LORD
THE OUTLAWS: SAM
THE OUTLAWS: JESS
THE OUTLAWS: RAFE
THE BLACK KNIGHT
GUNSLINGER
BEYOND THE HORIZON
PIRATE
BRAVE LAND, BRAVE LOVE
WILD LAND, WILD LOVE
BOLD LAND, BOLD LOVE
VIKING!
SURRENDER TO THE FURY
FOR HONOR’S SAKE
LORD OF THE NIGHT
PROMISE ME FOREVER
SHEIK
ICE
&
RAPTURE
LOVE ME WITH FURY
SHADOW WALKER
FLAME
TENDER FURY
DESERT ECSTASY
A PROMISE OF THUNDER
PURE TEMPTATION
WIND RIDER
TEARS LIKE RAIN
THE LION’S BRIDE
SIERRA
TREASURES OF THE HEART
CARESS
&
CONQUER
PROMISED SPLENDOR
WILD IS MY HEART
MY LADY VIXEN
A LEISURE BOOK®
April 2010
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