ellie stiffened as if frozen in place and her heart seemed to cease beating altogether as she acknowledged that the coldly arrogant duke of royston , the mockingly handsome justin st just , had just run the moistness of his sensuous tongue over her parted lips ... chapter five justin knew , almost the instant he began to gently nibble on the enticing fullness of eleanor 's bottom lip , tasting her heady sweetness against the sweep of his tongue , that he had made a mistake .