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So sleeping with hi They had no chance at a relationship anyway She didn’t even want one with him

Her realization almost made her dizzy

Except, she wasn’t really the sort of wo to end up with Was she?

But she also couldn’t see ever trusting soh to have an actual relationship And she knew she didn’t want to be used for her uys that were just after her for what she could buy theuys were easy to deny They were ineffective and basically sexless in her eyes

But Ferro? Ferro didn’t want her money If he wanted to sleep with her then he would at the very least really want her and not just her status

Heck, her statuseach other to get a business deal, sans sex, so the using would be physical using, which, as long as she went into it eyes wide-open…

Her mother would be so disappointed in her

She bit her lip She’d been taught to treat her body, sex, like it was special

But her inity from her Who had ruined, yeah, she would ad time So what did it matter? Her mother had never knoas best for her

All that aside, what did she have to lose? She was hardly wife and mother material anyway Maybe, for her, a steamy affair would be the best she could do

An affair with her enemy

Nohy did that excite her more than it repelled her?

She looked up when a man sat down at her table Blond, handso way as Ferro, but not unpleasant, either Maybe that was the answer Another man A more sensible man And they were in public, safe Maybe he would be a more sensible choice A man who could answer this sensual need she see but asn’t quite as full-on as Ferro

And, you know, not someone she classified as an enemy