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“Hey! You can’t just walk out. It’s not like I said yes.”
He stepped outside and peered over his shoulder, and silent laughter glimmered in his bright blue eyes. “You didn’t say no either, did you?”
I opened my mouth to tell him that I most certainly did, but I couldn’t. He was right. I hadn’t said no.
And given that my cat apparently had my tongue, I wasn’t about to, either.
Ah, shit.
He was gone.
Nowwhat was I supposed to do?
•••
“You shag him, obviously.”
I blinked at Megan on my laptop screen. “I am not going to shag the duke.”
“Didn’t your heroine say that in your last book?”
I grimaced. “No. She said it in this one. Right before he nailed her in the window seat.”
She nodded appreciatively. “Yes.”
“Meg! You’re not helping.”
“What did you think I was going to say?” She picked up what looked like a small slice of ham and cheese between two biscuits.
I squinted, bending so I was closer to the screen. “Is that… a Lunchable?”
“Yes. Yes, it is.” She moved it closer to the camera. “I am an adult, and if I want to eat a Lunchable for dinner, that’s what I’m going to do.”
That was fair.
“I wish I had a Lunchable,” I muttered.
“Go and buy one. That’s the beauty of being an adult.”
Meh. That meant putting on trousers.
“I’ll grab one tomorrow when I go out.” I stretched my leg out on the sofa and propped my head up on my hand. “Seriously, what do I do here? Of course I’d love to pick his brains—how often does a writer actually get to question a legitimate aristocrat for novel research?—but on the other hand, I’m pretty sure I’ve already written the story of two people who have no strings sex and I know how that ends.”
Meg chewed, tilting her head to the side thoughtfully. “What’s more important? Your dignity or your book research?”
“That seems like a trick question.”
“It’s a testament to your craft that you’re willing to sacrifice your dignity to find out if The Queen wipes her own arse or not.”
“I think you’re overselling it. Max probably doesn’t have any info on Her Majesty’s buttocks.” I paused. “Although now I am interested, and I hate that you brought it up.”
“You’re welcome.” She licked her fingers. “That was a good Lunchable.”
“You have been absolutely no help to me whatsoever, do you know that?”
“Darling, I don’t know what you want me to tell you. Like I’ve already told you, I would absolutely shag the duke if I were you.”
“You went a little Joanna Lumley there.”
