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Quin snorted

She burrowed closer, reveling in the strong arms around her, the dark, spicy, masculine se against her stomach that told her without words that he wanted her That he thought every inch of her breasts and sto

"I do feel so ahis country is not entirely honorable"

Olivia leaned against hi his heat warm her whole body "Rupert lost air at birth," she offered "He will never be all that he could be"

"He’shis country, risking his life to protect England"

A few ht"

"We will always be friends to hi you away, and I will never forget what I forced hiracefully, took the handkerchief he gave her "Rupert hed

"I ed her head up, kissed her wet eyes again Then his mouth came down on hers And his hands were everywhere: possessive, alainst hied there Quin’s kiss eet, but under it was a hard deht Her ar herhim in Her head reeled frone and so intrinsically Quin

The kiss made her feel wild and deeply alive He had his hand on her cheek, tilting her head back, kissing her fiercely

This was intimacy, she realized suddenly

Quin nipped her lower lip, and Olivia shivered against hirowl in response and tilted her head even further back Then hisher to ainst hi her closer

Olivia actually went up on her toes, so intent on the intoxicating warmth of his arms and his lips that--

She al

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Much Spontaneous Kissing And the Other Kind, Too

Olivia broke free with a gasp and turned, still in the circle of Quin’s ar theht watch a caterpillar: with curiosity, but not revulsion

"Tarquin," she stated

"Mother," Quin replied, nothis ar?"

"Kissing Olivia," Quin said "Spontaneously"

The duchess’s brow ht have furrowed--except one had to assuant facial expressions of that sort "Miss Lytton, I , Being kissed, and decided that disse would be the ht has provoked a level of unwonted hilarity," she said, piling on words in the hope that the dowager would find herself confused