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"I don’t want to beco to you that I’ I don’t want to fool you"

"You think so little of ed me at almost every turn, and yet here you are at last in my bed At my invitation as I recall"

"It could all be part of my well-conceived plan That’s hoork, you know We lure you into believing exactly e need you to in order to take advantage"

Releasing his hold on her wrist, he settled back against the pillows and spread his araze sloandered the length of him, and his body reacted with fierceness that he couldn’t control He watched as she sed and licked her lips Then she picked up the tray and gave hier in a position to stopthe dishes--which is exactly what I wanted"

He laughed He didn’t believe her, not for one aaining a decisive victory later

"You should rest now," she told hith"

He watched her leave the rooain his strength and quickly Theaway, and he suspected once she left his residence, he’d have a devil of a ti her to return

Chapter 17

While Greystone rested, Frannie retired to the arden, it was three walls of ith a glass roof that the rain pattered and exploded against She wanted honesty not only from him, but also froave herself to a man ould never , just once in her life, to knohat it was to be truly desired?

Greystone was a man of passion He was a man of adventure He was awhen she’d awoken to find hiainst her bottom

His nearness exhilarated her

He didn’t care about her past He didn’t care that she’d once been a pickpocket and thief She’d never enjoyed the tian would pretend to be a soldier, when people were kind to the their possessions She’d innately understood that everything they were doing rong--and yet she did it anyway in order to please hirandfather had forbidden the his he’d asked of her It was part of the reason that she spent so little money on herself and she had so few possessions She’d taken that to which she wasn’t entitled when she was younger and now she wanted to give back as much as she could If she could teach children not to break the law, if she could provide theood examples to follow, if she could undo the lessons they’d been taught…

Perhaps she wouldn’t feel quite so tainted by her past, by her association with Feagan

"I was hoping for a sunny day so that we arden," Greystone said as he sat in the chair beside her

She smiled at him "I enjoy the rain I’land who does"

"It seems melancholy weather"