Stolen Kisses

Stolen Kisses 4

Nadine excused herself from her conversation with Lord Bret and Lady Ella, feigning the need to go to the ladies lounge. Then, when she was sure no one was really paying attention to her, she slipped through the side door and out in the garden. Heaving a deep breath to calm her nervous heart, she steeled herself for what she was about to do. By crook or by hook she wanted James to be hers. She knew that somewhere beneath that broken man was the same man she had loved since she was ten.

"Eeeek!" Nadine yelped as she felt someone pull her.

"It's just me."

Nadine could recognize that voice anytime. She sighed in relief.

"You gave me a fright" Nadine said a little out of breath, her chest falling up and down as the pace of the beating of her heart was slowing down.

James silently cursed in his mind as his eye sight wandered down to the bodice of Nadine's gown, which did little to hide the expanse of skin wanting to spill out of her gown.

"Aren't you cold?" James asked as he jerked his gaze away from her bodice and back up to her face.

As if on cue, Nadine shivered. If it was from the way James looked at her body or from the chilly weather of the night, she was not sure.

"A little." Nadine sheepishly smiled.

Nadine watched as James shrugged out of his coat to drape it around her.

"Does this prove that I am not avoiding you?"

"Not quite..." Nadine gave James a mischievous smile. A smile that James knew too well meant trouble.

Nadine walked ahead of James as the he followed her, struggling a bit. His ride this morning and then dancing the waltz had pushed his still healing leg to its limits and he could feel the pain searing with his every step. He blindly followed Nadine as his focus was solely on making sure that the pain on his leg did not get any worse.  It was not until he bumped into her when she stopped walking did he realize that the chit had brought them farther into the garden.

"Bloody hell Naddie! Are you trying to get yourself ruined?" James bit out the words harshly as he tried to knock some sense on her and contain the pain of his leg.

He saw Nadine's eyes widen at his accusation but she did not say anything to counter him. He watched as she walked towards him and wrapped her arms around his neck before clumsily kissing him.

His lips were cold and damp and unresponsive. Nadine would have retreated then, but she remembered how James was the same when she first had stolen a kiss from him. To coax him more, Nadine tried to move her lips against his just like what they did before and as if that was some secret password to get him to respond. And like their first kiss, his lips started to move and mold against her. His hot breath on her mouth and his tongue darting at the seams of her lips coaxing her to open up and open up she did. They let their tongue dance together as the feelings of their first kiss gripped her whole body again.

With no volition at all she let her body mold against his as she pressed her whole length on him, making his kisses more demanding, needy and urgent.

When they ran out of breath, Nadine unwillingly pulled her lips away from James a soft smile splayed on her thin lips.

"Is that what you wanted from me, my lady?" James's harsh words broke away her euphoria from their heated kiss. "Did I satisfy your need enough?"

Feeling like she got burned, she pulled herself away from James, tears streaming down her face as she slapped the man she loved and the man who broke her heart.