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Reluctantly walking into the French lingerie boutique with Stavros pushing a baby stroller, she’d felt nervous and out of place When she’d looked at a price tag, she’d gasped and turned around, intending to walk straight back out again

“Where are you going?” her husband had said, grinning as he grabbed the stroller handle

She’d looked at him incredulously “It’s two hundred dollars!”

“So?”

“For a pair of panties!”

“I would pay farhis hand along the sleeve of her long, sleek black coat he’d just bought her at Dior, “to see you in them”

Her blush had felt like a raging fire, and she’d glanced right and left, hoping the salesgirls, all as glamorous as French supermodels, hadn’t heard Then her husband leaned forward and whispered what he planned to do to her later that night, and she was relieved that Freddie was still sleeping in the stroller so his innocent ears wouldn’t hear

“And,” Stavros had said when he finally pulled away, “jewelry”

“What could I possibly needher left hand, with its huge, bulky, platinuer

Her husband had given a low laugh “Oh,her cheek He ran his thu her lower lip, which was still swollen froht That sile from her mouth to her breasts and lower still “You will hav

e rubies as red as your lips Eht as your eyes” He’d looked at her with sensual, heavy-lidded eyes “I will see you naked inonly dia”

And he had

Holly shivered now, re

For the last three weeks, since their ht was more spectacular than the last She didn’t understand hoas possible

Perhaps it helped that she was no longer so exhausted froht As if even Freddie felt the new stability and security of their lives, he’d started sleeping better and longer at night than he had before And she also had Eleni’s help now