The Dying Duke's One-Year Wife Is a Nurse novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Sash
She took the bodice off.
Her hands were not quite steady on the hooks, and he watched every one of them come undone.
"Slower," said Lysander.
She slowed.
The bodice dropped, and then the skirt, and then the chemise, until she stood in the grey afternoon light with nothing on but her stockings.
He had never once given her an order in this bed.
She had not known how badly she wanted one.
"Stockings stay," he said. "Come here."
She walked to him.
He sat on the edge of the mattress with his dressing gown open over his bare chest.
He took her by the hips and turned her to face the bed.
"Hands."
She held them out in front of her, and her pulse jumped.
He pulled the silk sash from the waist of his gown.
It was dark green and as long as his arm.
He wound it twice around her wrists and knotted it with long, sure fingers.
"Tell me if it pinches."
"It doesn't."
"Good."
He lifted her bound hands and hooked the loop over the carved finial of the bedpost.
She stood with her arms stretched above her head and her breasts lifted.
The sand-glass sat on the post beside her wrists.
He reached past her, turned it, and the sand began to run.
"You count a pulse by reflex," he said behind her. "You cannot help it. You count mine in your sleep. Today you do not count anything."
"Lysander..."
"Today I count, nurse."
His voice dropped on the last word.
He stepped close.
His chest was warm against her back, and his cock was already hard against the base of her spine.
He set two fingers to the side of her throat, light and exact, the way she had taught him.
"Ninety-eight," he said. "You are already shaking."
"I'm not."
"You are. You like it."
"I'm twenty-four years old and I have never been so..."
"I know."
He bent his head and put his mouth on the curve between her neck and her shoulder.
She felt his teeth, then his tongue, then a slow suck that would leave a mark.
She moaned and pushed back against him.
"Be still."
She went still.
It cost her everything.
His free hand slid around her ribs and cupped her breast, weighing it, thumbing the nipple until it drew tight and hot.
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