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Half-heartedly, Lexi wriggled ‘Don’t’

‘Don’tyou, that’s all’

She wanted to tell him to roll over to the far side of the bed and leave her alone, but so stopped her Because wasn’t it delicious to feel his war the back of her neck like that? And didn’t his ar around her waist? She wanted to wriggle closer, to settle herself coainst him as she’d done so many times before, but in the midst of this forbidden pleasure ca next to her and just holding her? What was that all about?

She closed her eyes Her Greek husband had been very definite in his views about what took place in the marital bed and what took place was sex Lots of it Consistently a here with him just a hair’s breadth away fro it had been

Until after the baby, of course When Xenon had put hi hi to sleep in the room next door He’d told her she needed tirief Lexi had felt neglected, and lonely The longer they had been apart, the easier it had been to stay that way And then she’d had time to think that maybe it was all for the best

She had never slept with hiain

The taste of le away fro none of it ‘Relax,’ he repeated

‘Trying to lullto work’

‘How very brutal of you, Lex—to suggest that I ht have some kind of ulterior motive’

‘Haven’t you?’

‘Not right at this moment, no’ Fractionally, his thumb moved over her satin-covered waist ‘Tell me, did you enjoy dinner?’

‘Which part? The delicious bourekakia and tiropita—or your astonishing about-face on the subject of ?’

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