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"Why can’t I have an ordinary footman like the other ladies have?"

"Because you won’t always be going to the places other ladies go" Gabriel sat on a chair to re for factory space, andwith suppliers, retailers, and wholesale traders, and so forth If you take Drago with you, it will ease my mind about your safety" As he saw the mulish set of Pandora’s jaw, Gabriel decided to take another tack "Of course, we’ll replace hian to unfasten the buttons of his braces "But it would be a pity Drago grew up in an orphanage and has no family He’s always lived in a s in a real household for the first ti what family life was like" That last sentence was pure conjecture, but it did the trick

Pandora sent hiht I suppose I’ll have to keep him And train him not to scare people" Dras aki "My very own footure on the bed, feeling a rush of led amusement and lust that made his breath catch Before another second had passed, he’d cli her ?" Pandora asked with a spluttering laugh, twisting beneath hi your invitation"

"What invitation?"

"The one you gaveon the bed in that seductive pose"

"I flopped backward like a dying trout," she protested, squiran to hike up her skirts

"You kneouldn’t be able to resist"

"Take a bath first," she implored "You’re not fit for the house I should take you out to the stables and scrub you like one of the horses, with carbolic soap and a birch brush"

"Oh, you naughty girlyes, let’s do that" His hand wandered lecherously under her skirts

Pandora yelped with laughter and wrestled him "Stop, you’re contaminated! Come to the bathroom and I’ll wash you"

He pinned her down "You’ll be my bath handmaiden?" he asked provocatively

"You’d like that, wouldn’t you?"