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‘Well, therewe should do’

His eyes glinted

‘There’s certainly so I should do This’

His fingers sown from one shoulder

‘And this,’ he said, and his lips smoothed the skin beneath ‘And similarly…’

He performed the same task to her other shoulder

‘Then, of course, there is this’ His hand went to her back, and with a single fluid movement dren her zip ‘Why, Theo Theakis, you do not appear to be wearing underwear…’

‘It’s the heat,’ she murmured

‘Ah, well, that is solint in his eye, the deliberate not touching of her naked back, was sending tiny delicious sparks through her ‘You may find it, Theo Theakis, cooler indoors Shall we?’

He guided her inside the villa, into the single bedroom With the double bed

‘Much cooler,’ she murmured

‘Oh, I think we can do better yet,’ he said The jacket of his wedding suit had long ago been discarded, and still hung around the back of the chair he’d sat in for the breakfast His cuffs were undone and his shirtsleeves rolled up His tie hung loose around his neck, the top button of his shirt unfastened Now he proceeded to unbutton the rest of it

‘Allow me to help,’ said his wife ‘Wives should always help their husbands in all those little tasks they like help with’

One by one her fingers slipped his buttons, drawing the fineit from his broad shoulders Then, as he stood stock still, no , she unbuckled his belt and started on the fastenings of his trousers

His hands

‘Sohtness in his voice she’d have been deaf not to hear, ‘may prove a little…precipitate…if helped with Allow me, instead, to reciprocate’