Suddenly You(90)

“Jack,” she said breathlessly, leaning back against him, “not in front of Edward.”

“He’s sleeping.”

Amanda turned in his arms and applied her mouth to his, giving him a slow, tantalizing kiss. “You’ll have to wait until tonight,” she said when their lips parted. “Really, Jack, you are incorrigible. We’ve been married for four years. You should have tired of me by now like any normal respectable husband would have.”

“Well, there is your problem,” he said reasonably, his fingers playing behind her knee. “I’ve never been respectable. I’m a scoundrel, remember?”

Smiling, Amanda lowered herself to the warm grass and tugged him over her, until his shoulders blocked out the dappled sunlight that pierced through the rustling screen of leaves overhead. “Fortunately I have found that it is far more entertaining to be married to a scoundrel than a gentleman.”

Jack smiled, but the mischievous sparkle in his blue eyes was supplanted by a reflective glow. “If you could go back and change things…” he murmured, stroking the loose curls back from her face.

“Not for all the riches in the world,” Amanda replied, turning her face to kiss his gentle fingertips. “I have everything that I ever dared to dream about.”

“Then dream some more,” he whispered, just before his mouth closed over hers.