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Alessandra had been the first wo to leave

He couldn’t reht, when he’d wanted her so badly it had been as if he were consuht be feeling the physical soreness he assuinity, he would have

Her eyes didn’t waver although more colour crept over her face ‘When you say you want it to be seen as legal in every respect, are you i that we need to have sex?’

‘No’ His voice dropped, heat unfurling within him as a ust of wind fluttered across the a strand of her hair to stray across her face Unthinking, he reached out to brush it away ‘But ill be married—what couples choose to do in the privacy of their own home is entirely their own business’

Her throat nised

He leaned in closer ‘When we stay anywhere that is not under one of our own roofs, ill share a bed What we choose to do in that bed is nobody’s business but our own’

Their er This was going to be apulsed in her eyes and he kneith certainty that she was reood it had been between them

They had been coht caer to please and be pleased, to touch and be touched

Her arousal had been a living thing

She cleared her throat ‘And if I choose to sleep and only sleep?’

Then his balls would probably turn blue

‘Then you will be left to sleep’ He let his voice drop further, inching his face closer to hers ‘But, if you choose not to sleep, you won’t find ’

‘Is that because you’re not fussy about who you lie in bed with?’ Her words had a breathless quality to the from her

‘No’ He shook his head in emphasis and pressed his lips to her ear ‘It’s because you’re the sexiest woet hard every time I think of how you came undone in my arms’

He moved back to see her lips part and her doe eyes widen

‘I understand your opinion ofthat she turned the most beautiful colour when she blushed ‘But, I assure you, I think with the head on my shoulders and not the one in , ‘I think that’s a matter of opinion’

‘Point proved,’ he said ‘But, to prove ally nited in theht to say no’ He dipped his head to whisper into her ear again, inhaling her scent for good htened He could feel the heat froether in the first place was still well and truly alive ‘We’re both going to have to make sacrifices for this to work—the bedroom is the one area where coe can be about nothing but mutual pleasure’

She raised a shoulder and exhaled a shuddering breath that sounded al ed silence that had sprung up between them ‘I will not have sex with you just because it’s expected’

He pulled away, creating a little distance so he could look at her ‘My only expectation is that, e’re in public, we both put on a display of being in love’

She held his gaze for a fraction longer before blowing out a puff of air and fixing her gaze back on the lake ‘Bene’