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“Say no” He forced the words fro her neck just below her choker, before inhaling the perfu her thigh, caressing her bare buttock “I don’t have the strength to stop”

“I can’t stop, either,” she panted

“I don’t think you have the ic froainst the bookcase, he couldn’t resist settling his mouth to the sweet spot just behind her ear

“What was that?” Her sudden gasp startled him

He groaned against her neck “Loath me to point out the obvious, but I’m aroused to the point of madness”

“Not that,” she said, pushing gently on his chest She see sound”

Panic forced hiaze shot to the door

“It wasn’t the door, but so on the bookcase behind me”

He almost said to hell with the da erection and examine the shelves While nu their amorous encounter, the ones on three shelves were all positioned at the sale

Sybil placed her finger on the headband of a red leather volume “Confessions by Rousseau How apt” She attempted to push it back into position, but the whole row of bookssound”

His curiosity piqued, Lucius ran his hands over the volumes What looked like a row of books to the naked eye was nothing more than false spines

Placing his hands flat against the on the spines resulted in the whole panel swinging forward to reveal a secret cupboard

They both peered into the hidden coloves, powder and rouge, a own, a s to Sir Melrose were official-looking papers and a brown leather pocketbook wallet

“So, this is where the Cramptons hide their valuables,” Lucius said He removed the wallet and discovered vowels to the value of five thousand pounds belonging to a Mrs Dunwoody

“Dunwoody?” Sybilat the crisp notes in his hand “I don’t know anyone of that name”