Chapter 23

Yes. What he meant was for her to do all the work. Why should she? It was too intimate. But she hadn't specified, because she hadn't expected him to find such a vile loophole. After the afternoon she'd spent planning every single aspect of this encounter, after she'd given him the Callaloo and the rum, he did this?

It was difficult to speak through her frozen lips but she did it anyway.

"Whether it was in the agreement or not "

"Yeah, yeah. So you've said already." Ignoring her protestations, he dragged his shirt free of his breeches. "Excuse me while I just make myself comfortable."

"I am not doing it."

"That's a pity." He assessed her in that deceptively lazy fashion, as if he were really sorry about all this. "You don't have a lot of choice, you want that heir."

"I do. I want that heir, and I do have a lot of choices. One is that you will leave here. You will do so now."