Lacybourne Manor(70)

After they both came down, still deep inside her, Colin gave her his weight and both of them lay panting and speechless.

Finally, he came up on his forearms and looked down at her.

“That’s quite a way to combat a morning mood.” His voice was low, sexy and rough with residual desire and his handsome face was soft with approval.

As the last waves of pleasure subsided, she felt them immediately replaced with acute embarrassment.

What on earth was she thinking?

More to the point, what was she doing?

She’d just attacked him!

She closed her eyes and turned her face away at the same time she tried to push him off by pressing against his chest. It was one thing for him to buy her body and an entirely other thing for her to attack his.

Goddess, she was a raving wanton! What must he think?

She needed to escape.

She pressed against his chest harder.

He didn’t move.

“Sibyl,” he called.

“Colin,” she said to the wall, her eyes still closed, “Please get off me.”

He still didn’t move.

“Sibyl, look at me,” he demanded.

She shook her head but his hand came to her face and forced her to do as he said.

“Open your eyes,” he ordered.

She did and hers were filled with rebellion mixed with a good dose of humiliation.

“What just happened?” he seemed to see only the rebellion and she knew this because his voice was still low, sexy and rough but his face was no longer soft with approval but his eyes were intense with scrutiny.

“You were touching me,” she explained, her tone accusing, deciding her best course of action was to place blame quite squarely on his very broad shoulders.

“Touching you, yes, seducing you, no. What just happened?”

She shook her head.

“Sibyl,” he was using his smooth, even voice that meant he was close to losing his cool.

“I told you, you were touching me,” she repeated.

He waited but the expression on the hard planes of his face told her it wasn’t patiently.

Sibyl, again, obviously had no choice but to give him what he wanted.

“In a very sensitive spot,” she admitted reluctantly.

At her words, he looked startled. She should have been pleased at that but instead she felt all the more embarrassed.

“A very sensitive spot,” she stressed.