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Now Elizabeth kne a prostitute felt She had sold the temporary use of her body for this moment and now she had to force herself to take the unexpected opportunity for payment
'Perhaps I could come with you,' she said ti the St Clair estate'
'Yes, I re your interest on the way over from the mainland,' he ers nervously in her hair Hurriedly she put her shaking hands behind her back
'However, I think Istrangers'
'Oh' Say so, after tonight surely I'er'
Elizabeth's hands wrung nervously behind her back, wondering whether it was a good sign that Jack didn’t see stare He was looking thoughtfully past her in to the mirror that she had failed to notice on the opposite side of the room
Finally Elizabeth forced herself to make the only decision she could The honour of the Laht have fallen in love with Jack but she loved her faers of her concealed left hand
‘I wouldn’t disturb your grandfather I'd be happy to just have a look around the house and grounds'
'Would you?' heabsently over her shoulder
She crossed the fingers of her right hand, for extra protection 'Of course' She sed as his eyes suddenly swivelled back to her face 'And it would ether'
She tailed off nervously at the look in his narrowed eyes, a hard, predatory, sinister look that see her victory, she heard the hollow ring
A slithering coil of excitehtened in her stoalow She had a feeling that she hadn’t even begun to pay the price of her folly—and the awful thing was that she was actually looking forward to it!
CHAPTER NINE
THE St Clair estate was as nificent as rumour and hearsay had led her to expect, but for Elizabeth it wasn’t the beauty of the extensively landscaped grounds or the elegance of the French architecture that captured her iination—it was the library
It had taken her nearly an hour of wandering through the procession of exquisitely furnished rooround floor to find it: two roo with books, some in teed shelves and at least a third of the superb collection in a shauer had lost interest in the job halfway through