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She nodded

He curved his lips into a half smile “I can see it in the way you walk, the way you ers co to rest near her wrist—“the shape of your arm”

He leaned in, until his face was near hers, and she felt kissed by his breath as he spoke “You move differently than other women,” he said softly “It makes me wonder”

“What?” she whispered

His hand was so on the curve of her thigh, not quite caressing her, just re her of its p

resence with the heat and weight of it “I think you know,” he murmured

Hyacinth felt her body flush with heat as unbidden ies filled her mind She kneent on between a ered the truth out of her older sisters And she’d once found a scandalous book of erotic iory’s room, filled with illustrations froe inside

But nothing had prepared her for the rush of desire that she felt upon Gareth’sher, kissing her

It made her weak

It made her want him

“Don’t you wonder?” he whispered, the words hot against her ear

She nodded She couldn’t lie She felt bare in the ht

“What do you think?” he pressed

She sed, trying not to notice the way her breath seemed to fill her chest differently “I couldn’t say,” she finally ed

“No, you couldn’t,” he said, sly, “could you? But that’s of no matter” He leaned in and kissed her, once, slowly, on the lips “You will soon”