Moving from the mantle, he approached them, could see the hopeful desperation in Herbert’s eyes over Dawn’s shoulders.
“Perhaps I should excuse you both to more private quarters,” he murmured, terribly amused by the sudden flare of outraged panic on Herbert’s face.
“Father!”
Coming to a halt behind Dawn, von Krolock unfolded his hands and laid them on the girl’s slender shoulders, drawing her back a step. Unresisting, she was all but pressed back against his chest and he could feel the heady throb of her blood through her flesh, thrumming with delighted excitement.
“I think you have proved your point, liebling,” he murmured, lowering his head so no other could hear what he was saying to her. “Now stop scaring poor Herbert, else I fear William may do himself a permanent injury.”
Tilting her head to look up at him, she gave him a thoroughly angelic smile that belied the wickedness he had just seen. His hands tightened on her shoulders briefly, the rush of desire more potent than any he had felt for decades, and he knew that he would have her, if it killed them both.
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“Perhaps I should excuse you both to more private quarters,” he murmured, terribly amused by the sudden flare of outraged panic on Herbert’s face.
“Father!”
Coming to a halt behind Dawn, von Krolock unfolded his hands and laid them on the girl’s slender shoulders, drawing her back a step. Unresisting, she was all but pressed back against his chest and he could feel the heady throb of her blood through her flesh, thrumming with delighted excitement.
“I think you have proved your point, liebling,” he murmured, lowering his head so no other could hear what he was saying to her. “Now stop scaring poor Herbert, else I fear William may do himself a permanent injury.”
Tilting her head to look up at him, she gave him a thoroughly angelic smile that belied the wickedness he had just seen. His hands tightened on her shoulders briefly, the rush of desire more potent than any he had felt for decades, and he knew that he would have her, if it killed them both.