BLURB:
Evelyn quickly
discovers that while the handsome buccaneer has no intention of doing her any
harm, he will not tolerate disobedience, and when she attempts an escape she
ends up over his knee for a painful, embarrassing spanking in front of his
entire crew. Though the stern punishment infuriates Evelyn, she cannot help
wondering what it would be like to be mastered much more thoroughly, and soon
enough she is blushing crimson and quivering with desire as he teaches her
exactly what it means for a beautiful lady to surrender her body to a dominant
man.
Despite her growing
attraction to her captor, however, his plans for her remain a mystery. She is
to be delivered to a man in Boston, but she knows neither who he is nor what he
wants with her. All she can be sure of is that with each passing day she feels
less like a prisoner and more like a priceless treasure. But will old enemies
or the dangers of the high seas tear her from her lover’s arms?
Publisher’s Note: The Pirate’s Captive includes sexual scenes and spankings. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.
Excerpt :
“…Yet you chose to be reckless. You chose to disobey. And you chose to put yourself completely under
my power. So now you will find yourself over my knee.”
I trembled.
Then a moment
later, his smile dissolved while the fire in his eyes burned hotter. “Come to
me, Evelyn.”
I stepped forward
until I was standing between his knees.
He reached out one
large hand and lifted the tail of my braid, which had fallen down from the coil
I’d constructed that morning. I could only imagine how disheveled I appeared,
but Marcus didn’t seem to mind. He carefully carded his fingers through the
fine brown mass, working through the tangles, brushing down over my nape, and
then across my back, until it rippled in waves around me.
“Beauty,” he
murmured.
His hot breath hit the bare skin of my chest
and made my nipples pebble beneath the ragged edges of the chemise. I had never
felt so tense, so expectant.
Every touch felt
like a tongue of fire, branding me, making me want.
Just when I thought
I couldn’t take it any longer - when surely my chest would explode from the
aching need, he stopped. He rested one hand at my waist, while the other rose
to wrap around the base of my neck. My eyes blinked open.
“Lay yourself
across my knee, beauty.” His tone was as stern and controlled as ever, but I
sensed a new tension in his voice and it told me that he was not unaffected.
He wanted, too.
My choice, again.
He didn’t want to force me. I held his stare, my breath coming in sharp pants
and then… I bent over, allowing his hand at my neck to guide me so that my
upper body rested on the bed by his hip, propped slightly on my forearms. I
heard his breath leave him in a whoosh, at the same time the muscles in his
legs and torso grew impossibly tighter.
He gathered all of
my hair into his hand, and then twisted, twining it around his wrist and
gripping it in his fist, pinning me in place.
My breath caught.
With his free hand,
he grabbed a handful of my skirts and pulled them up, and then he ran his hand
up my stockinged calf. He paused when he reached edge of the stocking, his
fingers trailing back and forth along the bare skin at the back of my knee. I
hadn’t imagined something so simple could be so devastating, but it was.
And then his hand
slid up.
I sucked in a
shuddering breath as his hand trailed higher, up my thigh, taking my chemise
with it.
Dear God. He meant
me to be… bare?
It was too late for
protests, for objections, for any return of reason or common sense. I could
hear Aunt Beatrice’s voice in my head calling me wanton and wicked, but I
didn’t care. I wanted him to touch
me. I wanted him to want to.
And he didn’t
disappoint. Up and up and up, while my heart banged against my rib cage, and I
knotted my fingers in the sheets, until I could feel the touch of cool air
against my backside, and I knew that he could see all of me.
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