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get him to fuck her. And that was just what he’d done. There had

been no words of love spoken and no tender phrases, just base,

lust-ridden demands. Jane rolled over onto her back and stared at

the pastoral scene on the ceiling. Blaize called her manipulative

and perhaps he was right. Hadn’t she gotten what she wanted

despite him? Did he imagine she was laughing at him now?

With sudden resolve, Jane thrust back the covers and swung

her legs over the edge of the bed. When she set her feet on the

floor, her thigh muscles trembled and quaked and she almost fell.

She had to get up. She had to get to Blaize before he made up his

mind to send her away.

Minshom sat in his study and contemplated the view outside

his window. He’d bathed and changed, ignored Robert’s

concerned questions, eaten a late lunch and retired to his study to

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work. And yet he had done nothing except stare at the scurrying

clouds and tried to re-create the image of Michael Ellis’s face.

There was a knock at his door and Jane entered. She looked as

worn out as he felt—hardly surprising after their night of

lovemaking. Part of him was shocked she had decided to face

him. The other part of him, the coward within his own heart,

respected her courage more than he could ever admit.

He inclined his head a bare inch. «What can I do for you, my

lady?»

She bit her already swollen lower lip and he was instantly hard.

«I wanted to apologize to you.»

«Why? You got what you wanted from me, didn’t you?»

«But I didn’t want it like that.»

«Like what?»

She sighed and sat down. «In anger, in revenge for something

that happened a long time ago.»

He met her gaze, keeping his expression blank. «As to that. In

my early twenties I had a brief affair with Lady Ellis. I knew she

was married with three children and I also knew she had no

intention of leaving her husband. I believe she chose to bed me

in a fit of pique because Lord Ellis had recently set up a

permanent mistress.»

«You don’t have to tell me this, I...»

«Whatever her intentions, they had the desired effect. Lord

Ellis became jealous and gave up his mistress and took his wife

back. When Lady Ellis wrote to me to tell me she was breeding,

she told me that her husband was perfectly willing to bring the

child up as his own and that I was not required to play any

further part in either her or the baby’s life.»

He swallowed hard and looked down at his desk, rearranged

his pens into a straight line. «At the time I was deeply relieved

and quite selfishly pleased about that. I have only seen the boy

twice, both times at a distance. Yesterday was the first time I

actually met him.»

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Jane sat down, her eyes fixed on his face. «He looks just like

you.»

«So it seems.»

«It must have been a shock for you too.»

It was hard to meet her gaze. «Yes.» He busied himself

rearranging his pens again before he was able to look up again. «I

believe we need to renegotiate the terms of our bargain.»

«I beg your pardon?»

«I fucked you.»

«I know.» Color flooded her cheeks. «I forced you, so surely it

doesn’t count?»

He raised his eyebrows. «I’m no delicate flower, Jane. I

could’ve walked away from you at any point and I chose not to.»

In truth, that was a lie, but he couldn’t tell her that her anger had

held him as captive and submissive as a newborn lamb. «So I

have decided to change the rules. You may stay here until I’ve

fucked you enough to get you pregnant.»

«What?»

«You heard me, Jane.» He forced himself to continue. «We’ll

share a bed until you are with child again.»

«And then what?»

«And then you will leave London and not come back.»

«But what about the baby?»

He shrugged. «The child will be your responsibility. You will

inform me when it is born and then I wish to hear nothing more

from either of you.»

She rose unsteadily to her feet. «That makes no sense. Why

would you create a child and then send us both away?»

He glared at her, still too shaken to hide his true feelings.

«Because I’ll be damned if you get to have everything your own

way, Jane.»

«So I have to choose between you and the child?»

«Yes.»

«A child that you might already have given me last night?»

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«That is why I decided to change the rules.» Unwillingly, his

gaze fell to her belly and he wondered if she was right, if one

night could make a child. Damnation, of course it could. A one-

second fuck could make a child. He smiled at her bemused

expression. It was almost worth all his personal anguish just to

see Jane at a loss.

He walked around the desk and stood right in front of her,

heard her breath catch, saw the quick rise and fall of her breasts,

the breasts he’d endlessly suckled and nibbled and fondled just a

few short hours before.

«Do you accept the new agreement, Jane? As soon as you are

breeding, you tell me and I arrange for your immediate

transportation back to Minshom Abbey.»

«And until then?»

He placed a finger under her chin and raised her head until

she had to look at him. «I get to fuck you as much as I like,

whenever I like and wherever I like.»

«You do realize it might take years for me to become

pregnant?»

«I’m prepared to take the risk, and to be honest, the amount

of time I intend to devote to filling you with my cum, you’ll be

breeding within a month.»

«How nicely put.»

He bent his head, licked a path along the line of her lips, and

touched the tip of her tongue with his own. «You like my cum,

you like being fucked. Why deny yourself the pleasure?»

She frowned at him. «Because it is wrong, because...»

He kissed her hard, kept kissing her until her hand buried in

his hair and held him close. When he lifted his head, she was

panting. «Is this how it always has to be with you, Jane? I have to

fill you with my tongue, my fingers or my cock to keep you

quiet?»

«You are impossible!»

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He kissed her again, spread his hand wide over her buttocks

and pressed her against his loins. «How about we seal our new

bargain right here and now?»

She stared up at him, her eyes already clouded with desire, her

intelligence for once defeated by his sheer closeness. «I don’t like

this, Blaize.»

«Yes, you do.» He maneuvered her back against the desk,

picked her up and sat her on the edge, took his time opening the

placket of his breeches, gave her plenty of opportunity to escape.

She didn’t move, her troubled gaze fixed on his working fingers

and then on the swollen glory of his wet and wanting cock.

He pushed her knees wide and gathered up the soft muslin of

her skirts and petticoats to expose her sex. His cock was at the

perfect level to slide into her. He took her ankles and placed her

slippered feet flat on the surface of the desk, held her still as the

crown of his cock nudged against the entrance of her cunt.

«Are you sore?»

«Yes.»

«Because of me?»

«Of course.» She gasped as he pressed farther forward and

pushed through the swollen folds of her flesh.

«Did you bathe?»

«Yes.»

«But you’re still full of my cum, aren’t you?»

Her fingers dug into his shoulders. « Yes.»

He thrust home and held still; let her adjust to his size and

thick throbbing presence. «You’ll be even more full of me soon.»

He rocked his hips gently until she moaned his name. «So full

that my cum will be dripping out of you.»

She sighed and he held her tighter as he slowly entered and

retreated, watched his cock work her, disappear inside her and

then almost reemerge, just the tip of him in contact with her

dragging wet flesh. «So you agree to our new bargain then?»

«I’m not sure.»

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Her breathing now was frantic, her words fragmented as he

fucked her. «You agree, wife. Look down at my cock filling you

and tell me you don’t want it.» He slid his hand into her hair and

pushed her head down, let her watch the slow glide and retreat of

his glistening shaft.

«I can’t.»

«Can’t agree?»

«No, I can’t stop wanting this.»

A heavy surge of triumph shook through him and he grabbed

her wrist. «Good, so come for me.» He placed her fingers over

her clit and pressed his hand on top until she began to scream

into his mouth and writhe, until her inner muscles gripped his

cock so hard he had to come.

When he withdrew he stared at the thick evidence of his seed

that clung to her skin, to her thighs, to their entwined fingers.

Strange that such an insignificant mess could produce the miracle

of a child. He liked her wet like this far more than he had

anticipated. Enjoyed the thought of her always being wet.

He took his handkerchief from his coat pocket and pressed it

between her legs. «Don’t bathe. I like the thought of you covered

in my cum.»

«You would.» Jane slid off the desk, her color high and her

expression unreadable. «I have to go and see Emily and explain

my absence yesterday.»

He caught her arm, both to steady her and to get her

attention. «You will not tell her that we spent the day in bed?»

«Of course not and I won’t mention the other matter either.

Have some faith in me.»

He shrugged. «You’re not stupid, Jane, I’ll give you that.»

She sighed. «I am stupid, Blaize, because I’ve allowed you to

get your own way again.»

«I thought you were the one who had achieved her aim, not

me.» He tucked his cock back into his breeches and buttoned

them up.

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Her smile was bittersweet. «But I’m not proud of myself for

what I did. You are letting me think I’ve won when in truth, you

still achieve your goals. I will no longer be with you and you’ve

created yet another cast iron reason not to come home.»

«I don’t need to come ‘home’; my home is here.»

Jane headed toward the door. «You know what I mean, Blaize.

You have to come back at some point.»

He turned his back on her and stalked over to the window.

She sighed again and left, the door clicking shut behind her.

Minshom frowned at his faint reflection in the glass. She’d

regained not only her wits, but her sharp tongue far too quickly

for his liking. She reminded him of a hunting dog on the scent of

a fox.

Would she ever give up her campaign to make him come back

to Minshom Abbey? He could only hope that the prospect of

carrying a new child would take care of that, although sometimes,

he doubted it. It was difficult enough to deal with her in London,

let alone amongst the dark memories and still- present horrors of

his family’s country seat.

He moved abruptly to the door. The new bargain had been

made and he had to live with the consequences. His mouth

twisted in disgust. What kind of a man had he become? He was

terrified of Jane conceiving another child, but even that paled in

consideration to his fear of dealing with his father’s affairs at

Minshom Abbey. He was a coward indeed.

With a curse he flung open the door and headed up the stairs.

A morning spent at Jackson’s boxing salon might improve his

temper. His cock twitched as he contemplated the evenings and

days ahead with Jane at his beck and call. He realized, with a

shock, that he was looking forward to those hours even more

than he had looked forward to fucking Sokorvsky.

What the devil had Jane done to him? He slammed his

bedroom door shut and glowered at Robert, who was rearranging

his shirts in the drawer of the tallboy.

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«I’m going out.»

Robert bowed low. «Yes, sir. I’ll fetch your hat.»

Minshom tapped his booted foot as Robert took his time

brushing the high-crowned black hat and flicking imaginary lint

off Minshom’s dark blue coat.

«I’m tired of your sulking, Robert.»

«Really, sir.» Robert handed him his hat and stepped back.

«And I’m tired of your insolence.»

«Then why don’t you dismiss me, my lord?»

«Because that is exactly what you want.» Minshom studied his

valet’s obstinate face. «You’d just run straight to Captain Gray.»

«No, sir, I wouldn’t. He doesn’t consider himself good

enough for me.»

Minshom put on his hat and then paused. «I beg your pardon?

Surely it is the other way round?»

«I agree with you, sir, but Captain Gray doesn’t want me.»

Minshom frowned. Robert sounded desolate; as if his lover

had been buried in the ground rather than apparently being off

his head. «Are you sure about this?»

Robert shrugged. «He was drunk the last time I saw him, but

very clear.»

«Perhaps you should check and see if Lady Minshom has