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She s the valley of his spine, thein hell She ached for the part of him that had been in hell "Were you in hed and lowered his head as she dug her thumbs into the muscles above his hips

She tapped his shoulder "Take this off"

He shrugged out of his banyan and shirt, but when he made to turn around, she firmly pushed him back She pressed her thuroaned and his head fell forward again as he braced his hands on either side of the sill

"You were at Quebec," she said softly

"That was the only real battle The rest were skirmishes Some lasted only minutes"

"And Spinner’s Falls?"

His shoulders hunched as if she’d hit him, but he didn’t say a word She knew that Spinner’s Falls had been a massacre She’d comforted Emeline ord finally came back that Reynaud had not survived his capture there She should push--this was obviously his weak point But she couldn’t be so ruthless She hated the thought of hurting him anew

Instead, she took his hand and led him to her bed He stood silently, passively, as she stripped hih his cock was far from passive Then she pushed him onto the bed and climbed in beside him She propped herself up on an elbow next to hirateful that she had this man, at least for this time, for herself Here, now, she could do with hiift

So she leaned down and trailed soft, wet kisses along his side, licking the ridge of his ribs, nipping at the jut of his hip bone Above her, he ruement She wasn’t sure, and she didn’t care In front of her was her goal: his penis, bold and thick and hard She touched it with just a fingertip, running along its length Then she leaned down and softly, gently, kissed hirabbed her hair, pulling her face up "Don’t You don’t have to I don’t deserve it"

There were beads of sweat on his upper lip, and his eyes ild and sorrowful

Deserve was an interesting choice of word, and she stored it away so that she could bring it out and exah, she deliberately licked her lips, tasting his seed, and said, "I want to" She wanted to bring hirip relaxed, perhaps in surprise, but she took advantage by dipping her head and taking his cock into her ht it was to stop her now

She sucked on the tip, a salty pluth She hadn’t a lot of practice at this, and if there was a proper way of doing it, she wasn’t aware, but he didn’t seeible and bucked his hips She smiled secretly and let his cock pull out of her ainst the ive in his shaft He was hard and ready and--

He jackknifed up and flipped her beneath hi over her, his face dark as he growled, "Do you think s wide, planted her feet, and arched her hips off the bed She rubbed her sex against his length, watching as his eyelids fell in reaction

"Perhaps I do," she whispered "Perhaps your cock is my favorite toy Perhaps I want my toy inher lose her words on a gasp of pleasure

"Wanton," he gritted "My wanton"

And she could only laugh in sheer erotic frenzy She bucked her hips up, hed aloud as she rotated and ground against hi onto her bare breasts He gripped her hips and held her fir at an impossible pace Stars lit behind her open eyes, and she threw her head back and gasped in ecstasy She held on to his slippery shoulders, feeling the heat spread frohed aloud even as she crested in glory

It wasn’t until he shuddered in her ar steadily under his breath, that her vision cleared and she saw that above her his face was a edy

Chapter Eleven

All of the suitors set off after the ring of bronze, and Princess Surcease sighed and went back into the castle But Jack found a quiet corner and opened his little tin snuffbox And what should be inside but exactly what he needed: a suit of arht and wind and the sharpest sword in the world Jack put the suit on his sturasped the sword Then whoosh! Whist! he stood before a lake Jack was just wondering if this was the right lake, when an enorhty battle coe and Jack very small, but he did have the sharpest sword in the world, and that suit certainly helped In the end, the serpent lay dead and the ring lay in Jack’s hand

--from LAUGHING JACK

He’d apparently married a wanton, Ja CK

Of course, all that wonderfulness didn’t quite explain why he was riding away froain eaten breakfast without his wife This came perilously close to cowardice But while his body was enthralled by her sensuality, his intellect coldly wondered where she’d gained her knowledge She must’ve had at least one lover--possibly ht too closely The i her how to take a cock into her sweet, war chilance and shied away

Jasper pushed the thought froainst the ood weather had finally broken, and London was a gray, glooht He remembered his wife reflected in the blackas she drew her chemise from her tall, slender body She’d looked pale and otherworldly, her light brown hair swirling about her hips

She probably thought him a coward or, worse, an imbecile He’d left her after they’d ht on his pallet He was an ass But those eyes, watching hi him as she asked about Spinner’s Falls God She’d had no idea what she’d raciously Better not to give her hope of so more

And now he didn’t even make sense in his own lad that he could escape these s

Jasper dismounted Belle and handed the reins to a boy, then leapt up the front steps Afor him to come down from wherever he was

He’d just bent to peer at a large and dusty voluht reading?"

"Just wondering why anyone would want a history of copper rinned

Horn ood The mine he picked to invest in failed" He strolled into the roo over the arm "The Horns are not exactly known for their financial sense"

Jasper grimaced syed "Want some tea? Seems early for whiskey"

"No Thank you" Jasper wandered to a framed map of the world and tried to make out where Italy was

"Coain, have you?" Horn asked