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"You are trying to get back atto cal her She was, after all, relatively new to this kind of activity

He paused and looked at her, yellow fading in genuine surprise "For what?"

"Back at the Hypocras Club, when you were naked and I was not"

He pulled her toward hied to attend to himself as well as her, but somehow he had opened the flap at the front of his breeches Everything else reht had crossed my mind Now sit"

"What, there?"

"Aye, there"

Alexia looked dubious However, there were destined to be souments in their relationship she could not hope to win This was one of thehtly to one side, and she stuuided her into his lap in one s else with that particular proxienerous breasts, first kissing, then nibbling, then biting, a progression that had Alexia squir in such a way as to force the very tip of him inside her whether she willed it or no

"Really," she insisted, panting, "this is a most unseee lurched over a rut in the road and silenced all further objections The hs pressed against the roaned, a rapt expression on his face

Alexia gasped and winced "Ouch!" She leaned forward against her husband and bit his shoulder hard in revenge Hard enough to draw blood "That hurt"

He took the bite without coe bu extreions

"I shall take that as a no," said her husband, and began to e

What happened after that was all sweat, andsensation to which Alexia decided, after about one second of deep deliberation, she was not averse It culht around the area where he had i low groan and collapsed back on the carriage cushions, cradling her against hiain The books didn’t detail that occurrence"

The earl laughed "You must show me these books of yours"

She folded forward on top of him and nuzzled down into his cravat, pleased to be with aher draped atop him "Books of my father’s," she corrected

"I hear he had an interesting reputation"

"Mest" She closed her eyes, relaxing against her husband Then she thought of so, reared back, and whacked him on the waistcoat with one balled-up fist

"Ouch," said her long-suffering husband "Nohat are you upset about?"

"Isn’t that just like you!" she said

"What?"

"You took it as a challenge, didn’t you? My stopping you frorinned wolfishly, though his eyes had gone back to their hu how best to handle this situation Then she shifted back toward hi him of coat, waistcoat, and shirt

"Well, then," she said

"Aye?"

"I ae is an entirely inappropriate place for conjugal activities Would you like to proveme, Lady Maccon?" asked Lord Maccon inhi

Alexia smiled down at his bare chest and then looked once more into his eyes The yelloas back "All the time"