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“Not hungry, Master?” I asked, not really interested, but still attempting to make conversation so he wouldn’t notice the change in my feelings towards him. “I see you’ve barely touched your food.”
“Not especially.” When he answered, he didn’t bother looking at me, but with his left hand, raised his wine glass to drink. I inhaled sharply as I felt him place his right hand on my knee, which was bare, owing to the large slit in the gown. Shock rode through me as I tried to understand what he was doing—hadn’t he just told me our association needed to be professional only?
And, yet, he’d gone to some lengths to not only pick out this exact gown, but also to make sure you wore it,I pointed out to myself.Coincidence?
His hand began a slow, meandering journey up my thigh while Nicolo talked conversationally to me and did a good job of ignoring everyone around us, who were doing an equally good job of ignoring him.
“You have gotten to know me a little in the weeks you’ve been my squire, have you not, Charlotte?”
“Yes, Master,” my voice trembled as his fingers trespassed higher up my thigh, pushing the material of my gown further up to my waist. When he reached the junction of my torso and thigh, he paused and began to massage the flesh of my upper thigh.
“You would say I was a man who paid his debts, who gives as good as he gets?” he turned to face me then and there was something in his eyes that made my breath catch. He held up his drink and downed it.
“Yes, Master.” My voice seemed to have gone up an octave as his fingers began moving across my lower abdomen, towards my center. “Wh—what are you doing?” I whispered as I leaned into him, no longer able to understand his motivations.
“I owe you something,” he whispered back, on a shrug. “I believe you know what I’m talking about.”
I was immediately reminded of our time together when I left him… hanging. “Revenge?”
He chuckled and raised the glass to his lips, but not before looking at me dead in the eye, his narrowing. “I would be loath to call it revenge; simply payback.”
