Chapter 7Her lips were very soft, sweet and innocent and, while the Duke meant to be very gentle, he could not help increasing the pressure of his mouth until he felt Anoushka stir and she opened her eyes.
“I was – dreaming about – you,” she murmured drowsily and he knew she did not realise what was happening.
“I cannot help kissing you,” he said, “because it is something I have wanted to do for a long time.”
Then he was kissing her again, kissing her insistently, demandingly and at the same time tenderly.
He realised that she was still half asleep, but instinctively her body moved towards him, his arms went round her and he was holding her close against him as he kept her mouth captive.
As he did so, he realised that never in his whole life had he felt such a strange ecstatic joy in
