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eventually. He didn’t intend to be that vulnerable, but there was a certain licentious temptation to be the man to teach her how to play the game.
    A game he was very, very good at, by all accounts, and he enjoyed immensely, which was a bit of a problem.
    Or
more
than a bit at the moment.
    “I have just one more question.” She regarded him directly, her robe delectably draping her slender figure.
    He was weakening, damn all. The resolve not to touch her was born of self-preservation and outrage over their circumstances, but the cracks were widening and the temptation not helped by their current conversation.
    “Yes?” His gaze involuntarily strayed to the slight part in the material of her robe where it covered her breasts.
    And she noticed, for her cheeks took on a faint pink color. “How do you know?”
    “Know what?”
    “If it is a fair trade, as you put it.”
    Ran explained slowly, “Sexual pleasure is dependent on how receptive the lovers are to each other. I don’t think attraction can be defined—it just happens. When you marry duty is involved, but that is entirely different.”
    An ambiguous answer at best but a truthful one. From her few remarks on her engagement she didn’t appear to be emotionally involved with Lord Colbert, which was a pity.
    But she was attracted to
him
. Ran knew the signs well enough, and though she wasn’t skilled enough at flirtation to be deliberately provocative she managed it anyway.
    You want her. She wants you. There is privacy and a bed.

    “It
sounds
less than satisfactory,” Lady Elena muttered, resting a slender hand on the table. “But it still makes no sense to me. If so many women take lovers and some of them are married, they must find pleasure in it. As a husband, why not offer it to your wife instead?”
    A palatable silence descended as he contemplated the answer. She didn’t yet understand the nuances of choice and male privilege—and when the hell had this discussion turned from a titillating discourse on sexual practices to something else entirely? He didn’t want to destroy any romantic notions she might have over her upcoming nuptials.
    “I’ve never been a husband so I don’t know.”
    “When you marry, I assume you will do your best to—”
    He didn’t normally interrupt a lady, but now the conversation had definitely taken the wrong turn. “There is more in this room that indicates that it was used for illicit trysts.”
    Lade Elena glanced around, diverted, thankfully, from the less than desirable topic of any marriage, much less his. “What? There is hardly anything in here at all. No armoire, just this small table and chairs, and the screen and hip bath.”
    “Exactly. It was never used as a bedroom in the sense someone lived in it. The sole purpose is the bed and a place to bathe afterward.”
    “Why would you bathe afterward?”
    Her innocence should be off-putting, not intriguing.
Damn.
He’d never wanted a grass green girl in his bed.
Woman,
an errant voice whispered in his brain.
Every inch a woman
.
    Damn all if he didn’t want her enough to listen.
    Hadn’t she just asked him a question…? He cleared his throat. His cock was rigid now, throbbing with the beat of his heart. “For it all to work with the greatest sensation for both male and female, our bodies ready in certain ways. It is also a bit messy after climax.”
    The blank look on her face was predictable. “Climax?”
    It did him in, and his voice took on a telltale huskiness when he said, “Though I still vow not to cooperate with our mysterious captor, I would love to demonstrate.”

Chapter 9
    W as she being seduced?
    Although she did not have any experience with it, Elena rather thought so. It was in the subtle change in his demeanor, in the intensity of the viscount’s gaze. Their discussion, which she had certainly encouraged, hadn’t helped a bit, and his last statement was definitely contradictory.
    Surely either a woman was compromised or she

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