And because you will not let me have you, it is too painful to call you Ian. “When you are Westcott, you are detached from me, I have no claim on you,” she explained thickly, looking at him through her dark lashes. “Why will you not call me Ian?” he asked, softly, capturing her face in his hand, rubbing the pad of his thumb over her soft skin of her cheek. “Then let me tempt you, Westcott,” she replied. “You are much too tempting for your own good, Susanna,” he whispered huskily against her lips. He leaned down and kissed her again, long and drugging, enough to fill her senses. She gazed at him, thinking of his kisses, of his kindness and his jokes. “Three glasses of champagne and you’re drunk. “Apparently you are,” he said, pulling her hand down. “I’m not severely impaired.” He closed his eyes, enjoying the sensation. “I only had three glasses of champagne, Westcott,” Susanna said, slipping her hand into his evening jacket, and running her fingertips over his chest. “I am much better at handling myself while severely impaired.” He laughed and kissed her again before setting her away from him, wiping his kiss off her lips with his thumb. “Your eyes are the color of a tempest, by the way.” “Why is it you can kiss me when you’re foxed, but I can’t kiss you when I’m foxed?” she asked, watching the passion and torment raging war in his uniquely-colored eyes. “Susanna we have to stop,” he breathed heavily as he tore himself away from her lips. Can Susanna tame this tormented earl and help save herself and other women from a deadly fate? But the earl has demons of his own that threaten to complicate their secret romance, as he blames Lord Riverton for his sister's death. Little does she know that this earl, who is as handsome as he is arrogant, would weasel his way into her heart. One day while strolling through Hyde Park with her suitor, she is almost trampled to death by a rambunctious rider, Lord Westcott. Rather than living a life of spinsterhood, she decides a loveless marriage, to the dull and unromantic Lord Riverton, is better than none at all. Lady Susanna McCalister is young and beautiful, but her marriage prospects thus far have been rather lacking.

A Suitable Affair by Erica Taylor