Authors: Kresley Cole
If You Dare (45 page)
Yet he'd refused.
His gaze was fixed on her face, his eyes as dark as she'd remembered them. She could still affect him, and was thankful for all the new things she'd learned in her five London seasons among seven master cousins. She was no longer a girl, and with new bows in her quiver, Jane could torture him even more than she had before. She would torment him and he could do nothing about it without risking marriage to her, a consequence he'd made clear he didn't want.
For every hopeless day and night filled with tears, for every man she'd compared to him and found lacking, for his decision to leave her . . .
For all her pain, she would make him pay.
“Oh, Hugh, darling, it's close in here, is it not?” She undid the first five buttons of her blouse and drew it wide to fan herself. After opening the window on her side, she tugged up her skirts so she could kneel on the seat, then reached over Hugh's lap. She drew a knee to his thigh and placed her palm inches from his groin. His whole body went rigid.
With her other arm stretched out to the window, she turned to him so their lips were barely inches apart. “You don't mind, do you, darling?” His jaw clenched, and he swallowed hard. His brows drew together as though he was in pain.
Make him pay.
They hit a bump and his hands shot to her waist to steady her, but she made sure she fell to straddling him. Her palms clutched at his brawny chest, then rubbed there, trailing
lower, and he hissed in a breath.
“Jane . . . ,”
he growled, tightening his hands on her. She could feel him hard as steel beneath her and adjusted her position on his erection until he groaned.
And pay.
“How clumsy of me,” she purred. “Look at me with my knees spread over you . . . seated so tightly . . .
sliding . . . slowly . . . down upon your”
âshe leaned in close to his ear, making sure he heard her breaths before she enunciated
â“lap.”
He lowered his head to her neck and shuddered violently.
When she eased back, he faced her looking stunned. His normally clenched jaw was slackened.
And pay. . . .
She patted his shoulder firmlyâall businessâthen maneuvered and swished back into her seat to gaze casually out the window. “Yes, darling, now it's
much
better in here.”
A
LSO BY
K
RESLEY
C
OLE
The Captain of All Pleasures,
A 2003
Romantic Times
Reviewers' Choice Award winner
The Price of Pleasure
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