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Fact 34 Kissing is like one of those electrical experi new discovery but is fried like a mutton-chop in the process

Still, she couldn’t help wondering why Gabriel hadn’t tried again since that first day

Adin with Lady Berwick had once told her that a gentle an i her severely if she didn’t resist Although it see like that, Pandora didn’t know enough about men to rule out the possibility

But the ain was that she was bad at it She’d had no idea how to kiss, what to do with her lips or tongue But the sensations had been so extraordinary that her excitable nature had taken over, and she’d virtually attacked him And then he’d made that pirate remark, which she had puzzled over incessantly Had heway? It hadn’t sounded like a complaint, exactly, but could one reasonably take it as a compliment?

Fact 35 No list of ideal feminine qualities has ever included the phrase "you kiss like a pirate"

Although Pandora felt ht about her kisstastrophe, Gabriel had been so char his coether, talking, walking, riding, playing lawn tennis, croquet, and other outdoor games, always in the company of family members

In some ways, Gabriel reminded her of Devon, hom he seemed to have struck up a fast friendship Both were quick-witted and irreverentto view the world with a matism But whereas Devon’s nature was spontaneous and occasionally volatile, Gabriel was more careful and considered, his character tempered with a e

As the duke’s firstborn son, Gabriel was the future of the Challons, the one to whos would fall He ell educated, with a co of finance and coeical developer afford to depend only on the yields fros One heard more and more often of impoverished noblemen who had been unable to adapt their old-fashioned ways of thinking, and were now being forced to abandon their estates and sell their property

There was no doubt in Pandora’s ing world He was astute, intelligent, cool-headed, a natural leader Still, she thought, it must be difficult for any man to live under the burden of such expectations and responsibilities Did he ever worry about ?

On the third day of Pandora’s visit, they spent the afternoon at the estate’s archery grounds with Cassandra, Ivo, and Seraphina Realizing it was tiroup went to collect their arrows frorass-covered et," Seraphina cautioned, "we’re to dress a bit ht We’ve invited two local families to join us"

"How for to wear?"