title: A Compendium of Kisses: Facts, Quotes and Curiosities
author:  Lana Citron 
description: Lana Citron is passionate about all things kisses: she has researched, classified, categorized and quantified kisses and on the rare occasion indulges in the very practice. Visit her at www.oneoffkisses.com.
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  ‘Quickly,’ Alexander muttered, ‘don’t fight me.’
  
  Monday parted her lips to ask what he meant and was shocked when he covered
  them with his own, sweeping her into a clumsy but passionate embrace against
  the stable wall. Her spine was jarred by the difference in their heights. The
  grip of his hands was bruising, the pressure of his lips flattened hers
  against her teeth. She struggled in protest.
  
  ‘Put your arms around my neck,’ he muttered against her lips, as if breathing
  love words. ‘Let Richard believe that we are sweethearts, that there is no
  room for anyone or anything to come between us.’
  
  She hesitated, then did as he wanted, belatedly understanding his reason. As
  she raised her arms and drew him closer still, she thought to herself that
  despite kissing’s evil reputation as a pleasure that could lead the weak into
  the graver sin of fornication, there was nothing here to tempt her.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Elizabeth Chadwick
  
  THE CONQUEST  
  THE LOVE KNOT  
  THE MARSH KING’