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Elation she had no business feeling She could not _have _ him Anymore than he could have her
"I over a turay "Because it offends your oh-so-proper sensibilities?"
"We can’t _have _ each other You’re a duke I’ scowl "And we don’t even like one another"
He laughed darkly, the oose bu exists between us now Interesting tact And so easy to disprove"
He leaned closer, his hard chest pressing into her, arching her back over the table
"W-what are you doing?"
He scoured her with a fierce glare "Putting it to the test Never could pass on a challenge--"
"No," she denied, shaking her head fiercely "I did not , fixing on her lips with feverish intensity "I’ve longed to continue where we left off in the pantry"
Her chest lifted on a sharp exhalation "You promised I would be safe in your household"
"A pro at her lips, he replied distractedly "I did not take into account that I would not be safe fro" He shrugged "So I changed my mind Never was the honorable sort"
"Convenient," she bit out, arching her back over the table An ih his life since they first h her mind
"You arned"
"Certainly you don’t need er females and leave otten their names? Celeste, Gracie, Jenny
I confess even I cannot recall the naht we first met, but I’aze flicked from her eyes to her lips "No wonder you’ve met with such trouble Your past dish her at his words All the more because she feared there was a kernel of truth to them, feared that her bold ways may have resulted in her inability tofor his Achilles, "your grandfather is _right _ about you"
His eyes darkened An utter stillness caainst her "Tread carefully
You know nothing of what you speak"
Still, she could not hold her tongue, could not stop herself fro the very words he claied hirabbed her by the back of the head, fingers digging cruelly through her hair as he tilted her face toward his "And what kind of fool does thatwith such a man as me-- the devil himself? "
Her heart squeezed in her chest In a panic, she wondered, indeed, what kind of fool that led at the back of her throat, incomprehensible
"And have you not toyed withher lower body between the table and the hard wall of his body
She gasped Hot desire licked her body Her hand fu around an object on the table She brought it up in the air, only realizing at the last moment it was merely a thick wooden spoon Grand Unfortunate she couldn’t have grabbed a heavier piece of crockery She swung the spoon toward his head
The slap of his hand around her fingers echoed in the cavernous roo to the rafters and infuriating her His fingers squeezed until she dropped her would-be weapon
He flicked a disgusted look down at the spoon "A great fool, it would see to do with that? Serve me soup?"
"I had hoped to crack it over your skull"
His lips twisted in a savage s and hard
He trapped her so effortlessly against the table Her eyes moved to his and she couldn’t look away Slowly, she stopped struggling, stilling altogether, forgetting all the reasons she needed to fight hiers in her hair softened, but his grip was no less fir her face for him
Her breath rattled loose in a hoarse hiss as he pressed the side of his face against hers, his cheek rough and scratchy against her own "You think running aill ainst her ear and her belly trehtened Remembered
No She knew she wouldn’t But then she didn’t have to forget hi s, she shook her head, which only brought her face closer, rasping against his Her pulse skittered at ahard as a dru into the back of her hips