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the moment, but I shall be
quite recovered after my solitary walk.’
     
    CHAPTER
6
    I
will be punished for telling such awful lies, thought Dinah, turning away from
the garden path and walking fast towards the old shed hidden behind the trees.
She lifted the skirt of her pale green muslin dress, praying that it would not
get dirty.  She knew that what she was doing was mad, but she was past caring.
    The
crooked wooden door opened before she reached it. In a second Alex’s strong
arms pulled her inside. Although he had lit a candle and put it on the floor in
the corner, so it would not be seen from the outside, it was still very dark.
When he kissed her, he smelled of cigar smoke and horse. Despite her earlier
distress, Dinah melted in his arms.
    ‘Alex,
I need to tell you something’ she whispered.
    ‘Later’
was his impatient answer. ‘God, I missed you!’
    His
hands moved searchingly over her body.
    ‘Be
careful! I cannot go back all ruffled!’
    ‘Sorry,
you’re right. I just want you so much that I fear I might explode if I have to
wait any longer.’
    He
looked around and his eyes fell on a little wooden table. It looked a bit
unstable and was covered in dust, but he spread his riding coat over it. Than
he lifted Dinah, sat her on the top of it and kissed her, letting his tongue
run across her lower lip. When his fingers started to lightly caress her
breasts through the thin material of her bodice, she gave a loud moan.
    ‘Shush…’
he whispered. ‘Someone may hear you.’
    Then
he kneeled down and gently lifted her skirts and petticoat. Placing his hands
on her ankles, he trailed the length of her slim legs, parting them as he
reached the thighs. The way he was touching her, delicately and firmly at the
same time, made Dinah quiver with desire.
    What
they were doing was so shocking, so scandalous! But she did not feel remotely
ashamed, only hopelessly excited as she watched Alex unbuttoning his breeches.
The need to feel him inside her was almost painful. But she did not have to
wait long.
    As
he entered her, standing, grabbing the edge of the table for support, she felt
an almost instant pleasure, intensifying with his every thrust. Gasping, she
could not keep her voice down and, when Alex placed his hand on her mouth, she
bit into his fingers. She coiled one leg around his hips, urging him, bringing
him closer, forgetting everyone and everything that was not him.
    Then
the night seemed to explode in a white hot light behind her closed eyelids. She
heard Alex’s throaty groan and at the same time she tasted blood on his hand
where she bit it.
    ‘It’s
the sweetest injury I have ever got. I do hope there will be a new scar to add
to my collection. Something to remember you by.’
    ‘I’m
sorry’ she whispered, still breathless against his chest. ‘I could not control
myself.’
    ‘Miss
Benson, what would the vicar say if he saw you now?’
    ‘Oh,
stop it!’ she laughed, jumping down from the rickety table and smoothing her dress.
‘Tell me better if I look presentable.’
    ‘A
little flushed, but otherwise perfect’ he grinned at her. ‘That dress suits
you. Are you going to wear green tomorrow as well?’
    ‘Yes,
but a slightly darker shade. I do love it so! I have got a lovely silk dress
made for me in London. But Alex, I would like to talk to you and I haven’t got
much time.’
    ‘What
is it?’ he took her hand, seeing her distress.
    She
repeated him what Lady Hornby revealed about Lord Timsbury’s wealth.
    ‘He
does not need to marry me for money. And he seemed to be determined to do it
against his family’s wishes. I mean, the man does not even know me! It
frightens me, Alex. I cannot marry him. I will not!’
    Gently,
he drew her towards him. The warmth of his arms had a calming effect on Dinah.
She wished she could stay there forever, never go back to the guest in the
drawing room, never have to face the ball and Lord Timsbury.
    ‘I
cannot marry Lord Timsbury if he really