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Grabbing her wrists, he broke off the kiss Locking her wrists together with one hand, he carried them over her head as he climbed onto the bed and positioned hi the top of her necklace, then below it With his free hand, he balanced himself over her and slid into the molten recesses He almost closed his eyes with the marvelous sensations that swelled up within hi against her, he knew the moment that pleasure took hold for her, the wonder of it traveling over her face Her thighs squeezed his hips He bore it because he wouldn’t deny her the journey He was grateful that she was so responsive, quick to settle into the rhyth

Lost in the wonder of her, he rode her fast and hard until she was crying out and arching against hi sensations the freedohts To consuht be bruised in the ripping her when he bucked against her with his final thrusts Locked in her oeb of passion, she hadn’t noticed it either until she’d gotten up to clean herself and fetch the silk robe that he’d had sewn for her He’d slipped into his trousers, and now sat with his back against the headboard, his ankles crossed, as he ate a meat-filled pastry The tray of food rested between theh based on the way he watched her, she suspected they’d have another rousing round before he did

"I like the necklace," she said

"I’ll bring you another to special about it It was siiven As she was just a woiven ive h seeing her for the first tis"

"Rafe, I’s out of you I’m here because I want to be"

"What do youhere I like the residence I like the servants I even like you, as iaze, he reached for a strawberry "I’ve given you no reason to like h" Only it wasn’t He’d rescued her fro she had what she needed, even if he did it in a high-handedto her

"What do you do when you’re not here?" she asked

"Purchase you jewelry"

She rolled her eyes "I assus Look over ledgers, calculate theout,out Decide the liquor to be bought, the games to be added, the ones to be taken away Determine which lords need to be spoken to about their debt"

"Did you speak to Geoffrey? I know he owed you"

He nodded "That’s the reason I was in attendance that night He wanted to demonstrate his plan to ensure that he paid off his debt I was there to only observe, but when you walked through the dooryou fairly took ave me the time of day"

"Never let anyone kno badly you want soive more credence to his words than they deserved He meant that he wanted to bed her, not that he wanted her for herself "You didn’t tell h"

"It doesn’tstory"

"I’ to know about you"

He picked up the nearly empty tray and carried it over to a table When he returned to the bed, he stretched out on his back, shoved one ar onto her side, she studied his profile

"It happened after my brothers had made their way back to London Sebastian had reclaimed the title, returned to Pembrook with his new bride, and asked ht I saw a silhouette lurking about, so I went to confront the intruder He fired a bullet into me before I realized he had a pistol"

It took her athe story "So then what happened?"