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Eyes were on her then and she knew both of them waited for her reaction At first she only breathed, her eyes half-closed But so welled up inside her, a powerful wave of ee unnah It bubbled up to the surface, lifting her heart so high she felt that she’d cohs joined her own until a sy Søren pulled her close and kissed her deep

"Jeg elsker dig, min lille en," he said into her lips

"You have no idea how much it turns

"Of course I do Sleep now for a while"

"Where are you going?"

Søren looked over her shoulder and she turned to see hioing for wine"

Wineof course They both loved their wine A glass of red, no doubt Or two Wouldn’t take theht as well sleep as ordered

She settled into the bed Kingsley and Søren pulled on their pants and shirts, not bothering to tuck anything in They both looked so roguish, so dashing, in their disheveled clothes

Hurry back, she thought but didn’t say aloud Hurry back could be construed as an order They gave the orders She took thesley’s house at ht when the likelihood of an evening es had been lost by Søren being called away to attend to one of his parishioners Every hour they spent together they stole No wonder Søren had wanted her and Kingsley to share this night together Perhaps in the future, when the church called Søren away from her, she could come here and not have to sleep alone

But now she slept alone as Kingsley and Søren went to drink their wine

They never got the wine

"So what happened?" Marie-Laure interrupted "No wine in the house?"

Nora sighed as Marie-Laure’s question ripped her out of the story How she longed to stay in that ht the seeds of the wosley’s bed

"Oh, plenty of wine in the house Kingsley has a well-endowed cellar"

"What happened then, after my brother and my husband had both violated you?"

"I don’t know," Nora ad, anyway"