Lily and the Duke (Sex and the Season #1) - Helen Hardt Page 0,101
the buttons on his trousers and slid off his lap to kneel before him.
“Lily, you’re still weak. You don’t have to…”
“Hush,” was all she said, before her lips were otherwise engaged.
CHAPTER 20
Six Weeks Later
After she changed into her new sheer green nightdress and brushed her long dark hair until it shone, Lily waited in her bedchamber for Daniel to come to her. He appeared in a silk dressing robe, his hair glittering around his shoulders, his green eyes filled with smoke.
“Good evening, wife,” he said huskily.
“What took you so long, husband?” she asked innocently.
“In a hurry are you?”
“Not so much,” she said coyly. “We have a lifetime.”
Daniel removed his dressing robe and lay down next to her on the bed. “I think you’re even more beautiful now that you’re my wife.” He eased the sheer gown off her shoulders. “I wouldn’t have thought it possible.”
“I want you to do something for me,” Lily said, as he cupped her full breasts, massaging them and teasing her nipples with his thumbs.
“Anything.”
“Put your babe in me tonight, Daniel. I want to have your child.”
He looked up at her, his eyes blazing. He opened his mouth to speak, but she placed her fingers on his soft lips.
“And after that, I’d like to try the…other entrance.”
“God, are you sure?”
“Very sure. I want to experience everything with you.”
Daniel moaned softly as he took her mouth, his capable hands ridding the rest of her body of the gown. He showered her face and neck with light fluttery pecks, pausing at her ears to suck on her lobes and tease her ear canals with his tongue. Lily shivered, running her fingers through his blond locks and moaning his name softly. Daniel made his way down to her breasts and ravished them, tugging on her nipples until she arched off the bed, her fingernails digging into the hard muscle of his shoulders.
“God, how I’ve missed you, Lily,” he rasped, kissing and biting her inner thighs.
He pushed his tongue into her pussy and tugged on her swollen flesh, sucking it into his mouth. Lily grabbed his head and laced her fingers through his silky hair, grinding into his face harder and harder.
“Daniel,” she moaned. “Now, Daniel, I need you!”
He kissed her belly, her breasts, her mouth. She reached down and clutched his cock, his breath blowing short puffs against her neck. She led him to her opening, which was warm and wet, ready to receive him.
From the wall opposite the bed, the serene face of St. Praxedis watched over them.
THE END
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AUTHOR’S NOTE
Johannes or Jan Vermeer van Delft, born in 1632, was a Dutch genre painter. His most famous painting is Girl with a Pearl Earring.
When Vermeer married Catherina Bolnes in 1653, he converted to Catholicism, which might explain his interest in the subject of St. Praxedis. The painting may be Vermeer’s earliest surviving work. It was only recently conclusively attributed to Vermeer.
The Duke of Lybrook is a fictional character, so of course he never owned St. Praxedis. It was discovered in 1943 in a small New York auction room and was most recently sold in 2014 at Christie’s in London on behalf of the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection Foundation. Who knows where it was in 1853? Perhaps it was hanging in a ducal residence near Bath.
After his death in 1675, Vermeer was overlooked by most art collectors for nearly two hundred years, until a French critic re-discovered him in 1866. However, I like to think that a young lord might have purchased one of his works around 1850, and that a young lady, enamored with art, might have discovered his talents and become fascinated with his life and work.
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. The theme of a story is its central idea or ideas. To put it more simply, it’s what the story means. How would you characterize the theme of Lily and the