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Оглавление‘Why are you doing this, Beth?’
Guy was sitting on the bed beside her, positioned so that he did not prevent the candlelight from falling on her face. She smiled, but he detected a wariness at the back of her eyes.
‘Does there have to be a reason?’
He did not reply. Desire still raged through him, and he had to work hard to fight against it.
‘You think that you can seduce me, so that I will not betray you?’
‘No! I—’
He put a finger on her lips.
‘Do not lie to me, Beth.’
She sat up, pulling up the neck of her nightgown, not realising that the flimsy covering did nothing to hide her body. It merely heightened her charms.
‘I th-thought I might persuade you …’
‘I am not so cheaply bought!’
