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Brent leaned across the table, his jaw tight "I don’t need lessons on how to talk to ree I think you need lessons on quite a few things"

If she’d blinked, she would have n she’d co in polite social skills and e to teach me those lessons? You?"

His expression transfore, and he drawled the final ith such skepticisid Dammit, he always made it sexual He knew it shut her down Forced her to back off She could throw around insults with the best of thein, she’d never hit her stride in that department When she dated, it was usually to keep her mother off her back The dates very rarely ended up in bed And if they did end up "shaking the sheets," it frequently ended in disappointer on what she needed She just knew she needed more Not love No, no Nor did she want polite sex Or affectionate sex She needed so…else

"What’s wrong, rich girl?" Brent grinned and sipped his beer "Afraid you’d like it too much?"

"No," she responded a little too quickly "I’et rid of your lu ass"

Hayden’s mouth snapped shut It was the first time she’d ever responded to one of his endless sexual innuendos in kind She tried not to panic when he did an interested double take

"Is that right?"

She raised her chin in response, frowning when his gaze briefly landed on her lips

"How…exactly…would you make me like it, duchess?"

A sarcastic brush-off sat poised on the tip of her tongue, but she held it back This garown too sure of hian to for She’d call his bluff He insisted on turning their arguments sexual to quiet her down? He didn’t think the spoiled debutante could keep up? Well, this tiauessed Hoped The idea of voluntarily touching each other had to be just as abhorrent to hiht, they’d finally declare a winner of this ongoing battle of wits and wills

When she unbuttoned the top two buttons on her shirt and let the ape, Brent’s beer bottle froze halfway to his liunderwear set, sucker And I’ down

Her voice dropped to a seductive purr "It would be so much more fun to show you"

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