The Official Essex Sisters Companion Guide (39 page)

“
No
,” he said. His face looked agonized. “No. No kisses.”

She rose to her feet and stretched again. He wrenched his eyes away. “Aye, a challenge,” he muttered to himself.

Annabel grinned. She had never felt more provocative, more potent, more—more loved in her life. She strolled over to the bed and sat down, stretching her arms behind her so that her breasts showed to their best advantage.

“Lass, you’re going to have to help me,” her husband said earnestly. “No looking at me in such a way.”

She hid her smile and her joy, and pouted. “But I need help. And that you are here to aid me.”

“Anything,” he said. “I’ll do anything you wish, Annabel.”

“In that case,” she said gently, “I’d like you to take this gown off.”

He stayed utterly still in the middle of the room.

“And then,” she said, her voice drugged with desire, “I’d like you to kiss me
here
.” She touched her breast. “And
here
.” She touched her great stomach. “And then . . .”

But he was there, next to her on the bed, gathering her into his arms in a movement so quick that she didn’t see it happen. “I love you, Annabel,” he said to her, his voice deep with the promise, the honesty, and the truth.

“Ask me how much I love you,” she said, cupping his face in her hands. “I promise you an honest answer.”

“How much do you love me?” he whispered.

“Too much,” she whispered. “’Twill go past death, there’s so much of it. And now you owe me a kiss.” A moment later, they were rolling on the bed, nothing between them but the growing child.

And as it happened, Samuel Raphael Poley, future Earl of Ardmore, was fast asleep.

Web addresses change frequently, and many sources can appear in multiple places on the Internet. To avoid frustration due to the potential for broken links, search the Internet via title or author for any reference you want to find. If you want the actual Web address I used, it can be found below, if it’s still available.

Aria, Eliza.
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Ashton, John.
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Calthrop, Dion Clayton.
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Chambers’s Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People
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London: For the Proprietors of the Illustrations of London Buildings, 1826.
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Etherege, George, Sir.
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Grose, Francis.
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Harvey, Di. Weatherbys. E-mail dated August 28, 2013.

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James, Eloisa.
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James, Eloisa.
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Le Blanc, H.
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Cooper-Hewitt Museum; Harting, Joan Lancaster.
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http://archive.org/details/ladiesonhorseba00dongoog

Smeeton, George.
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Chronicles of Fashion: From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century, in Manners, Amusements, Banquets, Costume, etc.
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The Toilette of Health, Beauty, and Fashion
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