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Robert closed his eyes as if in pain. ‘Innocent, gently bred females do not go around running their hands over naked men.’ He cursed. ‘Any men. What do you think your family would say?’

‘I’m no innocent. And I don’t care what Uncle Mortimer thinks.’ Frederica had tried for years to make him think well of her, to no avail. And now he was going to marry her off.

‘Not innocent?’ he scoffed.

With a mother like hers, how could she be innocent? She certainly wasn’t ignorant.

‘W-would you like to find out?’ Her words came out in a breathy rush, too eager, too desperate.

‘No,’ he said.

‘Because you don’t find me attractive?’

He half groaned, half laughed. ‘Not that. Definitely not that. I don’t want to lose my job.’

‘I would never tell anyone.’

‘You are a naughty little puss. Do you know that? A temptress.’ His lips brushed her ear, her throat, her collarbone, sending shivers down her spine. ‘Leave now, before I take you at your word.’