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“And maybe the shower” She’d ducked her face into the pillow

“Water absolves,” I’d purred, unable to keep fro her, “It washes clean”

“It didn’t do such a good job with you” From the depths of her pillow, one dark eye had peeped open, a little mascara stained and full of mischief, the cheek not squashed into the pillow a delectable pink

“This blush” Reaching out, I’d traced the path of heat “It gets me every time”

“Gets you what?” Her taunt was telling So very telling

“It gets me hard”

“Want to watch some Downton Abbey with me?”

“I’m not sure what that is” I knohat it is now, of course And the tenas it atching her skin be revealed inch by inch I’d pulled the sheet down her body so slowly, revealing the flare of her hips and the depressions low on her spine,the dimple in her cheek

“It’s like you’re from another world”

I remember how I’d paused at that point She’d no idea how accurate her statement was Another world far removed from hers Another world that isn’t always hospitable to those not from within

“I’ht, I realise this isn’t at all what she’dan episode of Downton Abbey, I’ Did she mean another world or another time?

“I just mean you’re not like most Brits I’ve come across—”

“Do youacross British ainst her bicep, a pulse washing through me as I’d felt muscle there I’d wanted to push her back, spread her out, discover what other layers I ht’ve missed

“Do you turn everything into innuendo?”

“Only when I’ about the stereotypes, the tea-drinking, cru, polite and mannerly bunch That’s just for the tourists”

“To get the tourists into bed?”

“Only heathens eat crumpets in bed, Holland Just think of the crumbs”

She’d giggled then, at least until I’d trailed ertip down her spine and over the swell of her buttocks She had such a ive to have it in ain

“But as a race, we aren’t truly polite We’re nearer to the rude as fuck edge of the scale”

“Which sounds all the more so in that accent”

“I don’t have an accent”

“Of course not But you’re just trying to distract ame”

“I still think there are s about them” Much more intimate ways