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"Good grief We just attended to that thing"

He shrugged, and bit back a saze blatantly appreciative and only slightly intied her back into the bathing chamber "I cannot help but respond You are quite sily attractive woman"

Isabel snorted, but followed hilanced over his shoulder to see why, and caught her ogling his ass with a riveted gaze She was too preoccupied to realize he’d taken note, so he flexed his buttocks and then laughed when she blushed Whatever her objection to marital sexual intimacy, it was certainly not due to lack of interest in hiht?" he asked solicitously, treading new ground He was not accustomed to casual conversation in the ed erection was not helping hiaze was burning his skin

"Why?"

"Because you are upset about it" Gerard turned and pushed her into a chair, taking a moment to brush the lovely hair he so admired over her shoulders

"This is so aard," she co over her chest modestly as he reached into the tub and pulled out one of the soaked towels "What are you doing?" she asked, watching him squeeze out the excess water

"I told you" He dropped to a crouch before her, and with a hand on each knee, forced her legs apart

"Stop that!" Isabel slapped at his hands He arched a brow and slapped her back, although with far asped ide eyes

"Wench Allow me to clean you up a bit"

Sherry-colored eyes shot fire at hih, thank you Now leave me in peace, and I will care for myself"

"I haven’t even started," he drawled

"Nonsense You’ve had what you wanted Let’s forget this happened, and go on as ere"

Gerard rocked back on his heels "Had what I wanted, eh? Don’t be daft, Pel" He shoved her clenched thighs apart and thrust the cloth between thes I want You have not been bent over a piece of furniture and fucked from behind I have not sucked your nipples or your--" He ran the cloth gently through the lips of her sex, and then followed it with a teasing glide of his tongue, pausing a brief moment to tease her clitoris from its hood "You have not been flat on your back and ridden properly In short, we are nowhere near finished"

"Gray" She surprised hiaze was earnest and direct And very hot "We started this with a bargain Let us end this with one"

His eyes narrowed in suspicion "What kind of bargain?"

"A pleasurable one If I give you one night, and promise to do whatever you wish, will you in turn pro onward?"

His blasted cock raised its head in eager agreeht?" She was h for either of them He was as hard at this moment as he had been before he’d come, she affected him that much

He returned his attentions to his ently She was lovely, flushed and glistening, and blessed with a dazzling frah his hair, tugging it to draw his gaze back up to her face Her fingertips glided over his features, following first the arch of his brows before caressing his cheeks, and then his lips She seened "These lines around your eyes and e you, diminish your beauty Instead, they do the opposite"

"It is not a bad thing to want me, Isabel" He dropped the cloth, and embraced her waist, his face buried between her breasts where the scent of her was so strong She was naked in his arhtly he held her, he could not get close enough

Turning his head, he caught her nipple with hisintiue around it and relished the velvety softness Shehi He released her breast, and caught her up Her legs wrapped around his waist, her ared-for acquiescence His pace quickened as he walked straight through to his bedroom, a chamber he had stood in only hours before, despondent that he had changed rooms to be closer to Pel and had instead pushed her away

Now she would scent his sheets, warer As he set her down carefully on the bed, his throat tightened Above her, the headboard displayed his crest, below her lay his red velvet counterpane The thought of indulging in his wife’s char

"One night," she ainst his throat

Gerard shuddered, both from the feel of her breath across his skin, and from the realization that he could not take her as he truly desired He would have to woo her with his body and show her how gentle he could be, because he had to change herhiht in which to do it

Isabel sank into linen-covered pillows on Gray’s bed and noted again how ed He had once preferred silk sheets, she knew What the change signified, she didn’t know, but she wanted to She opened her ainst hers, his tongue sweeping inside with a slow, deliberate glide Moaning, she welcoht over hers

He was hard all over, every inch of his golden skin stretched taut over rippling muscle In all of her life, she had never seen a masculine body as beautifully for that Pelhaht, it was not a cohtly

"Pel" Gray breathed into herto lick you all over, kiss you everywhere, ht"

"And I will do the saly across his da their ive her all to the endeavor

Pulling away slightly to look at her, Gray gave her the opportunity she needed to take the upper hand She hooked her heel over the back of his calf, and rolled, rising above hiain and reclai down at her with laughing blue eyes "I gave you the top previously"

"I did not hear you co at the time"