Chapter 14Jacob made as if to move from the bed, and Sebastian stopped him. “I’ll go,” he said. “I could find my way around this house blindfold and anyway, I know where everything is.”
He fastened his breeches so they would not slide over his slim hips and, without bothering to take a candle, slipped downstairs like a wraith. He reached the kitchen, blessing Mrs P. for leaving a pan of still-warm water on the stove and found a bowl and cloth in the faint moonlight coming through the windows.
When he returned upstairs, Jacob was lying under the covers. As Sebastian placed the articles on the bedside table, Jacob flung back the covers to reveal his nakedness. Looking at the magnificent sight before him, Sebastian slipped off his breeches and stockings, then kneeling on the bed, wrung out
