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The taste of the strawberry sweetened the kiss, which was not at all sweet, but wet and deep and passionate, and seelad I was not a harlot, I thought as I worked at the buttons of his shirt and opened it to bare his chest They had no idea what they were erie," Dreded the knickers out of the way and found the open crotch with his hand

"So do I" As his fingers breechedmy breath when I felt my body receive hi "What if soe" He shifted overdown to open the front of his trousers "I’ll kill them"

"Lucien, you can’t, ah" Words deserted me as he worked the swollen head of his penis past ht, as the way he came into me I found my voice somewhere "You’re determined, then? I cannot persuade you--"

"Charle, forceful land"

As I relished the stretching sensation his shaft created inside me, his advice made me frown "God, why?"

What folloas, like our first ti to me Dredmore moved in me hat should have been theout, and then forging back in Magic was made from the delicious friction involved, perhaps, or the way my body responded, rather like a mad creature on its own I could not keep my hands from him as the pleasure built between us, and the darew louder and faster and wetter

Dredmore seemed equally undone; he bent his head to alternate between kissingat my breasts, while I scored his shoulders with my nails and pressed my lips to his chest The room seemed to dim as the ache inside me swelled, tormented now by the hard thrusts of his shaft intoliquid and spreading out,us in our frantic moveh the dark and shattered under hiht of it Distantly I heard his voice, rough and shaking as he jerked atophiether, bound by body and heart Now I understood omen could not resist men; they were our physical co onto his side and gathering?"

"If someone had come in," I answered truthfully, "I think I would have killed them That and we should never play cards"

He nodded slowly and brushed some hair back from my eyes "I should like to spend the next week in this bed with you, but we o"

I recalled the unfortunate afterave him a narrow look "To where, exactly?"

"A place safer than this" He propped hi I have to show you"

I glanced down "I believe I have seen everything you have now"

"This you have not" He rose from the bed and offered me his hand "Come"

I went to the arohite braided tri up at the basin in the corner I dressed in it Dredmore came to button up the back forup the hood to conceal my head "Stay behind me on the way out, and don’t say a word to anyone"

"If you’re thinking of iain," I told him, "you’ll lose more than a horse this time" Which made me think "Someone will see us leave the house Walsh will know you have me"

"Of course he will," Dredap to look through and check the hallway

I frowned "You want hi lanced back at ht he hired me to kill you"

"I see" His confession strucknuer between eet you out of the country" He saw my face and took my cold hands in his "I intended to tell you when I returned this ht back into Walsh’s hands"

"You iven hiotten the best of me "How much am I worth dead?"