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Оглавление‘If you agree to come here and play the piano for me I can create another story.’
He smiled with all the charisma he employed to woo patrons in London, hoping she wouldn’t dismiss the idea outright.
She laced her arms beneath her breasts and stepped back, the cynical schoolmarm returning. ‘And what instrument do you hope I’ll play afterwards? I’m not Madame de Badeau, a woman to be hired as a mistress.’
He didn’t blame her for being cautious. Once he’d achieved fame, the number of people he could trust had shrunk significantly.
‘I don’t want a mistress but a muse.’
It was difficult to look at her and not think of twining his hands in her golden hair, tasting her pink lips as they parted beneath his and freeing those glorious breasts from their prim confines. He’d better not concentrate on them if he wanted to win her co-operation and keep himself free from distraction and bankruptcy.
‘I need you.’