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He laid her across his bed and teased the edge of her bodice down enough for him to locate one pink nipple. He closed his lips around it, licking hungrily until she squirmed beneath him.
“Nick, I was working.”
“Mmm,” he answered, his mouth full. “So am I.”
He noticed she didn’t protest too much, so he shifted to the other taut peak. Soon she was sighing beneath his lips.
He raised his head. “We haven’t made love in the afternoon yet.”
She looked pretty in early afternoon light. Glowing and warm, her hair threaded with gold and her lively, intelligent eyes shifting with darker shadows and brilliant green like leaves dappled by sunlight.
“Lie back and raise your arms above your head,” she said.
“What was that?” he murmured, back at his task of worshipping her glorious breasts.
“I said lie back and raise your arms over your head,” she said in an amusing approximation of a growl.
Interesting, the lady wanted to play. “Whatever you want, Dimples.”
He stretched lazily. He’d left the bed in only his smalls, so she had plenty to see.
He loved the way her eyes grew hazy as she watched him stretch his length across the bed.
He lifted his arms over his head and flexed his muscles. “Like this?”
“Wrists crossed,” she ordered.
Even more interesting.
Nick complied, liking this new, forceful side of his wife.
She was full of surprises.
She reached up and... surprised him even more.
“Are you tying my wrists?”
“It appears so,” she said, bending to her task, biting her full lower lip as she concentrated on wrapping silk cords around his wrists. Where did the cords come from? Had she been carrying them around, thinking about doing this all morning?
“You know I’ll be able to break free easily, right?” he asked. “And then I’ll have my way with you.”
She smirked. “I’ve been practicing my sailor’s knots, in the event the merchant ship to India is overrun by pirates, all the crew is killed, and I have to escape in a rowboat.”
Nick burst into laughter. “And have you been practicing rowing then, too?”
She tugged on the knot around his wrist and calmly proceeded to secure it to one of the carved bedposts. “Oh yes. And I’ve also been practicing... riding,” she said in a seductive tone, glancing down his body. “In the event I must make my escape by horse once I reach shore.”
“Riding,” said Nick, his voice sounding strained.
He twisted his wrists to test her knot. The lady could tie.
She gave him a satisfied smile. “You won’t break free easily.”
No, he wouldn’t. And why was that so arousing? He’d never wanted to be tied before. He’d always been the one in control. He’d always been the tie-er.
Something about Alice’s smile disarmed him so completely. He didn’t mind being in her power. In fact, he could probably learn to like it. Especially when she looked at him like that.
“Why are you smiling at me so wolfishly, Lady Hatherly?”
