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So orderly a world
Lucy settled herself into one of the wing chairs before the fireplace With the study door open, she had a view into the hallway and all that happened there Simon would have to pass her by when he cas when he did
APHRODITE’S GROTTO WAS A DEN of howling wolves tonight
Simon advanced into the main hall of the brothel and looked around He hadn’t set foot in here since before he’d ed Half-dressed whores paraded their wares, enticing e Minor royalty rubbed shoulders with upstart nitaries Aphrodite didn’t care As long as the color of the old In fact, it was rumored that she had just as ed theht cynically He looked around for the old mask Just as well Aphrodite frowned on violence in her house, and that was exactly what he was intent on doing
"What is this place?" Christian whispered beside hier man two--no, three--houses before Christian still looked fresh-faced after the theater earlier in the evening, the fight outside it, and the three increasingly seedy ga places they’d visited before this Simon very much feared that he himself resembled a newly unearthed corpse
Da the race going on there
Fe only brief corsets and masks rode bare-chested steeds Sih, judging by the bulge in the trousers of her mount, he didn’t mind at all
"On what?" Christian watched wide-eyed as the winning pair galloped up and down the upper hall The jockey was bare-breasted and bouncing exuberantly
"On your definition of heaven and hell, I suppose," Simon said
His eyes felt as if a handful of sand were under each lid, his head ached, and he was tired So very tired
He kicked in the first door
Christian exclainored it The occupants, two girls and a red-headed gentleman, didn’t even notice the intrusion He didn’t bother to apologize, just shut the door andWalker According to his sources, Walker had never patronized Aphrodite’s Grotto before But Siet this over with He needed to ain
Another door Shrieks from within--tomen this time--and he closed it Walker was married with a mistress, but he liked the bawdy houses If Sile brothel in London, eventually he’d find hi this?" Christian asked
"Yes" Kick His knee was beginning to hurt "But hopefully not before I find my quarry"
He was at the end of the hall now, at the last door, in fact, and Christian was right It was only a s arrived Kick
He nearly turned away, but he looked again
The man on the bed had his cock buried in a saffron-haired wench on her knees She was naked, save a demi-mask, and had her eyes closed Her partner hadn’t noticed their interruption Not that it mattered He was short and swarthy and black haired No, it was the secondthe show, that , too, since Simon had almost overlooked him
"What the hell--"
"Ah Good evening, Lord Walker" Simon advanced and made a bow "Lady Walker"
The h his hips still moved instinctively The woh, you bastard, what?" Walker lurched to his feet, his now-li from his breeches "That’s notthe woman "But she looks like Lady Walker Particularly that h on her hip
The uvnor?"
"No! Of course not"
"Oh, but I’ve known your fair lady intimately for quite some time, Walker," Simon drawled "And I’ h it sounded a bit weak "I know your ga to trick me into--"
"Never had quality before," the stud said from atop the woman He increased his pace, possibly in appreciation
"She’s not--"
"My acquaintance with Lady Walker goes back many years" Simon leaned on his stick and smiled "Before the birth of your first child--your heir, I believe?"
"Why, you--"
The black-hairedas he obviously deposited a load of sper a cock that, even half-deflated, was of equine proportions
"Jesus," Christian said
"Quite," Siet that thing in her?" the younger lad you asked," Si a pupil "Lady Walker is quite talented in that regard"
Walker gave a roar and charged across the roo in his veins Maybe he could finish this tonight
"See, here," a voice exclaimed from the door at the same time
The house bullies had arrived He stepped aside and Walker ran into their waiting arrasp
"I’h!" Walker panted
"Possibly," Simon drawled God, he was tired to the bone "At dawn, then?"