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"No"

The circle becahter Closer to where she wanted hi her in the dead of night, alone

It was the dead of night, but she was no longer alone

"Here?"

She shook her head He ht not have been able to see it, but he knew The circle tightened, and she thought she"Where? Show me"

She barely believed it when she did as he asked, clasping his hand in hers and placing it where she wanted hi and plucking at the straining tip until she sighed her pleasure, pressing against hi for--

"What did he do next?" The words sounded like carriage wheels on stone

"He kissed her," she whispered "There"

"Sers were, sucking gently, as though he had an eternity to explore her, and perhaps he did Perhaps she would let hi as he wished

But he did not re his teeth across the hardened nipple in a wicked caress that had her crying out and sliding her fingers into his hair to hold hiive her what she wished, instead lifting hiscool air across her flushed skin before lavishing similar attention on her other breast

It went on and on, back and forth, until she was straining for more of his touch, for ave it to her, the hand at her ankle sliding farther beneath her skirts along the length of her leg, higher and higher, until it stilled, at the soft skin of her thigh, fingers stroking softly as he lifted his head and spoke in the sinful dark "And what did you think of it?"

"I thought--" She stopped, embarrassed of the ering caress "Did you wish it was you?"

"No" she said, and it was true "I wished"

She wished his hand would h I wished someone would worship me like that I wished I could co and slow and deep "This kind?"

She sighed "Yes And then he--"

In her silence, those fingers stroked and stroked, slow and deliberate, as though he had nothing more to do ever She couldn’t tell him Could she?

But it was dark, and they were cloaked in secrets anyway, and when they got to Mossband, they would part ways Why not tell hiers stilled for barely any tiht not have noticed if she weren’t so busy noticing him And suddenly, she felt very, very powerful And the words broke free The words she’d never i out loud The ot to his knees"

His whispered curse came out part blaspheine you know," she said, drunk on the way the moment consumed her

"I knohat I would like to do"

And then he was dropping her feet to the floor of the carriage, and lowering hirateful for the darkness of the carriage, because she wasn’t certain she would ever be able to look at this s as he raised her skirts, folding thee of her seat and spreading her legs wide

Her cheeks flaarments, as they had not fit beneath the livery she’d worn earlier Belatedly, she tried to close her thighs, but he held her open "Sophie?" he asked, and the world rapped up in her name

"Yes?"