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Maira should have stopped Jacob,but she couldn’t. Something inside her sprang to life at his touch and made her want him desperately. His story made her feel sorry for him, and she found herself wanting to make him feel happy again.
He continued to kiss her as he leaned over her atop the bed. His hand skimmed up her leg and under her gown, traveling slowly closer and closer to her womanhood. The action was seductive and made her feel aroused. A heat encompassed her and a pulsing sensation started up between her thighs.
“Come with me, Maira. We will go back to the woods and far away from here.”
“Jacob, you don’t know what you’re asking.” She felt his other hand skim up her side and cup her breast. Then he kissed her with even more passion and his thumb skimmed over her nipple, bringing it to a peak. She arched up off the bed, never having felt this way before. “Take me,” she whispered, feeling as if she didn’t know who she was anymore. She was so aroused that she was almost ready to reach her peak. It didn’t take much from a man like Jacob before she was dropping her inhibitions and throwing care to the wind. Thoughts, crazy thoughts, filled her head of making love to him right there, right now. The idea scared her and excited her both at the same time.
He suddenly sat up and ran a hand through his hair.
“What’s the matter?” she asked him. “Why are you stopping?”
“Nay. This isn’t right.” He scooted off the bed leaving her lying there in heated passion, ready to fall over the brink. “I won’t do this,” he mumbled, straightening his tunic and heading back for the secret door.
“Wait!” Maira shot off the bed, feeling so wanton. Her actions embarrassed her now. She felt as if she’d made a mistake.
“You know where to find me if you’re interested in joining me on my mission.”
“That’s it?” she cried, ready to slug him for teasing her and leaving her hanging. “How can you say you want to marry me and almost couple with me one minute and the next be cold and unemotional, walking out the door?”
“I made a mistake in the past and I will not make it again.”
“So is that what I am now? A mistake? If that’s how you feel, then go. Leave! I don’t need you. I don’t need anyone but myself.” She held back the tears not wanting him to see how upset she was by this. She needed to remain strong.
“Maira, you don’t understand.” He took two steps toward her and reached out to cup her cheek, but she didn’t let him. She turned her head and held up a halting hand.
“Go, before I call the guards and tell them you are here.”
“I still want you, Maira, but not like this. I need to take care of unfinished business first.”
“I’ll not be part of your deceitful, vengeful scheme, so do not ask me again.”
“How can you say that after everything I’ve told you? Don’t stay with the bastard, Maira. Please.”
“Don’t call Sir Gregory a bastard. After all, have you forgotten, my father and uncles are bastards?”
“I didn’t mean it like that.” His gray eyes bored into her, holding desperation as well as remorse and confusion. “I just want things to be different, that’s all.”
There came a knock at the door and the voice of a woman from the other side. “Lady Maira, may I come in?”
“Go,” she whispered to Jacob.
“I don’t want to leave you this way.” He looked at the door and then back to the secret passageway.
“If you don’t leave right now, I’ll tell the woman to enter and then your secret will no longer be a secret.”
“All right, I’ll leave,” he said, seeming very hesitant to go now. “But promise me one thing. Promise me you’ll give me one more chance before you make a decision about me. Come to my hidden camp in the woods tomorrow and let me make it up to you.”
“I’ll promise nothing of the sort. Now go.”
He nodded slowly and headed out the secret passageway, closing the door behind him.
Maira’s heart about broke, but she had to let Jacob go. After what almost happened between them, she might have made the biggest mistake of her life.
“Enter,” she called out. The door to the room opened and Cleo poked her head inside the room.
“Cleo? What are you doing here?” Maira rushed over to greet her.
“I brought you some food, my lady.” Cleo held a basket over her arm. “Tommy told me you left the great hall before you’d had a chance to eat.”
