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“It wasn’t completed,” she agreed, trying without success to suppress a smile.
That only drew his gaze to her mouth, and he knew again a profound desire to pull her into his arms and bring his mouth not to her forehead, sweetly, but to her mouth, intimately.
Good God, man! She’s your wife, not your whore!
He limited himself to their chaste tradition, which was more affection than he remembered ever seeing between a husband and a wife.Count yourself lucky you have this.
Later that night, after supper and a few hands of cards, none of his inner recriminations stopped him from his boldest transgression yet.
“Yes, goodnight,” he repeated her shy farewell. Only she wasn’t leaving the game table quite yet. “I…I forget, Beatrice. Did I visit you last night? Or am I due this night?”
She was as familiar with their routine of the last month as he. Her breath stilled in her chest for a moment before her eyes flared and she looked away as she answered. “You’re due this night, William.”
She can’t lie worth a damn. “I shall see you shortly, then.”
“As you see fit, my lord.”
