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“That’s kind of you to say.”
“Credit where credit’s due,” she said, and cleared her throat.
He slid his hand under her chin, lifted it.
“I’m not going to force you to do anything you don’t want to do this week,” he said. “I don’t force. I seduce. But I will seduce you, and by the end of the week you will have done things with me you never dreamed you wanted to do. You understand?”
She slowly nodded.
“Let’s get into bed,” he said. “I want you on my cock.”
She took another heaving breath. She might have squeaked.
“You’re a grown woman, Lia. You’re allowed to have sex and enjoy it.”
“It was so easy to be with you before.”
“Because I was someone else?”
“BecauseIwas someone else,” she said. “I don’t know if I can...”
“You can. You will. But we can go slowly. Bring the cup. I’ll fetch the wine.”
Lia relaxed slightly when August stepped away from her. She busied herself opening her bag and taking out the kylix, which she’d wrapped up carefully in clean linen. She carried it over to the bed.
August came up behind and pressed himself against her back. He took the cup from her hand and set it on the black square nightstand, next to an open bottle of red wine. He wrapped his arms around her stomach and kissed the side of her neck.
The warmth of his body seeped through the fabric of her dress and into her skin. She stood still, too nervous to move, as he nibbled the pulse point in her neck and ran his hands slowly up and down her back. She liked it but didn’t know how to respond. And she wanted to respond. She wanted him to know she wanted him.
“Relax,” he said into her ear, as if he’d read her thoughts. “Let me do my job. And let me show you why I love my work.”
She smiled, nodded, still nervous but relieved she wouldn’t be expected to perform.
“But first, let us bid adieu to your clothes.”
“No,” she said, turning to face him. “No. No, no, no.”
He narrowed his eyes at her. “You do know how sex works, yes?”
She held up her hand and pushed the air, demanding some room between them. He obliged and took one step back.
Lia unzipped her dress, pulled it off and laid it over the back of a chair. Under it, she wore a simple ivory slip, one that had belonged to her grandmother in the ’60s.
“Better.” He stepped forward and ran his hands over her back again and Lia shivered pleasantly as his skin warmed her through the silk. “This is very pretty. It will look even prettier on my floor...”
“Give me time,” she said.
“All the time you need,” he said, and kissed her neck again. “But we’re getting rid of the knickers right this second.”
She made a sound halfway between a whimper and a squeak.
They had a deal, she reminded herself.
“All right.”
August pulled her knickers down her legs and with a dainty lift of her feet she was out of them.
“Not so bad, was it?” he asked after tossing her underwear all the way across the room.
