Christine Merrill [Hephaestus To Recapture a Rake (epub)

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.“You are not some common whore, my dear.”“Then I am an uncommon one,” she announced.“The activities are the same, although the workplace is better.I flatter myself to think that I perform them with a skill that makes me worthy of additional compensation.”His knees went weak, remembering the skills she described.If he were not careful, he would have her demonstrating them here, scant feet from half the wags in London.Then, no idle threats would keep them away from her.“It is unfair of you to speak thusly of an offer of protection.It is more of a symbiotic relationship.Each party gains from it.”“That is true of any form of trade,” she said, as though schooled in business.“One gains wares, the other, money.”“That was not how it was between us,” he insisted, marveling at how soft it sounded, how desperate.“You enjoyed what we did as much as I.”“Did it make it easier to tell yourself that?” she asked.“But you did.” If she had objected to any of it, he would have stopped.When had he ever needed to? She had been compliant in all things.After she’d said yes to his first dishonorable offer, what choice was left to her? Now, he was faulting her for the situation he’d created.Today, it did not seem to bother her.She ran a hand down his coat, fingers under his lapel.Even though she did not touch skin, the possessiveness of the gesture made him hard and weak at the same time.He clasped her hand along with the cloth and squeezed it and he felt her legs widen, ready to accommodate him should he hoist her skirts.It was almost impossible to resist.He wanted her as much as he had the first night he had seen her in Bath.Then, she had been a fresh faced virgin in a white muslin gown.He had desired her with an intensity that had defied logic.Because of her, he had alternated playing the spurned lover and the jealous fool until he no longer knew his own mind.But now, she was the woman who knew his body like no one ever would, and her hand was moving between his legs, undoing the front of his trousers and reaching for him.Her strokes were slow and sure, and for a moment he lost track of his anger with her, feeling nothing but her fingers, spreading the moisture on the head of his shaft.“You might not understand this,” she said, in a voice that was almost a purr.“As a member of the peerage, you think work beneath you.But it is not such a bad thing, when one enjoys one’s job.” She slid down his body, to her knees, and her tongue circled where her fingers had been.“And you have been very good to me.”“Yes.” It was a lie, and he knew it.He had given her a house and jewels.But she deserved so much more.His fingers clutched the fabric of the coat on the peg.The weight of the wool was the only thing holding him upright as she worked slowly over him.He was fully in her mouth now, lips and tongue covering him in slow strokes as her hands moved up to squeeze his arse.He was going to explode, right here, in the cloakroom of a men’s club.She knew he was close.She paused, releasing him and blowing long, cold breaths on the hot, tight skin.“A man who is so generous should be willing to give me the one thing I truly want.”Marriage.It had to be.He’d thought about it often enough, over the last year, only to discard it.Society would never forgive her, now that she had accepted something less from him.If he made her his countess, she could not be hidden away and kept safe from the negative opinion of the ton.How could he forgive himself, if their wedding exposed her to more ridicule?But he would need an heir.For that, he must marry.He had known, for some time now, that it would be impossible for him to marry anyone but her.“Anything,” he said stroking her hair.“The world is yours, should you desire it.” It was a relief that this was finally to be settled between them.He was back in her favor again.And back in her mouth, building to climax.She paused again, and her hand returned to finish him as she spoke.“Then there will be no more of this nonsense about my taking another lover [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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