Emily, there are enemies everywhere. We have to be on our guard, especially for the next couple of weeks._ Theo sighed unhappily. __his is going to be the longest fortnight of my life._ __hat__ saying something,_ I joked, __iven how long you__e lived._ __xactly,_ he said, without smiling.
She cocked her head. The ribbon tied beneath her chin glinted dully in the light. __ave I said something wrong?___o."__ have._ She stepped closer. __ou are the most inscrutable man I have ever met._ He laughed. No mirth at all. ____ quite serious._ She studied him. __o._ Her quiet voice lanced through him. __on__ look away. Not when I am about to understand you._ __re you certain you wish to?_ He held her gaze, and the silence of his hunting box became unendurable. He fixed in his head an image of her in his bed. Nude. And of him, there to touch, and taste, experiencing that moment when his prick slid into her body. Her. Not any woman, but her. Specifically. The woman who made him see beauty where he__ once seen only duty.
In the Duke's Arms
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She cocked her head. The ribbon tied beneath her chin glinted dully in the light. __ave I said something wrong?___o."__ have._ She stepped closer. __ou are the most inscrutable man I have ever met._ He laughed. No mirth at all. ____ quite serious._ She studied him. __o._ Her quiet voice lanced through him. __on__ look away. Not when I am about to understand you._ __re you certain you wish to?_ He held her gaze, and the silence of his hunting box became unendurable. He fixed in his head an image of her in his bed. Nude. And of him, there to touch, and taste, experiencing that moment when his prick slid into her body. Her. Not any woman, but her. Specifically. The woman who made him see beauty where he__ once seen only duty.
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