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"I do," she groaned "More"

He laughed, the sound like sin in the dark Like the devil himself "As you deain

She soon beca hi words she’d never thought she’d say--words that would ruin her in polite company forever

But she did not care about polite colorious man who showed her ht

And as he did her bidding, his touch accorowl, she carew louder, and she cried out his naht in protest "No!"

He pressed her back against the seat and whispered, "What did I say about you being quiet?" He lowered his head and kissed her gently, open "You must be quiet, Sophie Wedesire flooding through her He was asking the i the question

"Dear God No We shouldn’t stop"

Sophie gave a little sigh of relief that becaain "I quite desperately want you to scream, Sophie," he said between idle, unbearable licks "I want to stop this carriage, lay you down beneath the stars, and ain"

She stifled a cry at the words and his touch, stiffening Clenching her fingers in his hair "Please, King"

"Shhhh" He spoke directly to the core of her, the rush of air ain, joining in her torture, sliding deep, stroking and curling again and again "Hebut excite her further, and it greorse as he teased and te her to be quiet in that wicked voice, all enjoy her want hi in her twenty-one years

"He ht hear us," he repeated to the core of her, his warainst her "He ht hear you, your little cries, the way you call my name, like sin and sex in the darkness"

She wasn’t sin and sex, though He was

But when he set his hs and lifted herself to hiain and again as he pressedshe desired

"Don’t stop," she whispered "Please, King Don’t stop"

He didn’t, not even as the tension built with no purchase, with no release, when she fell into the darkness, victi he offered without hesitation

She rocked against hie rocked beneath thelorious, wicked sensation, and she forgot everything but hirip and his wonderfulover her, breaking her, it was King who held her together, letting her explore all the corners of pleasure without hesitation Without embarrassment Without shame

Perhaps it was the darkness that kept the shame away Because she should have been ashamed, shouldn’t she? Ladies did not behave in such a manner But somehow, she did not feel ashamed, even as he lifted his mouth from her, lifted his touch from her Restored her skirts and resumed his place on the seat beside her