CHAPTER 11

Susan's mouth hung open at his command as the silence lingered. She finally found her voice, "What?" She hoped he would laugh and declare it to be a joke. 

"I said you should strip." He repeated the command more seriously as he readied himself for her complaint.

Susan's face turned to that of disbelief, "Are you serious right now?" The seriousness in his eyes gave her all the answers she was demanding. He was damn serious. He must be out of his senses to think she would do such a thing, "Duke Edmund, there is no way I am stripping for you!"

"We had a deal, woman."

"I know!"

"So, what is keeping you from doing what I am asking you to do?"

"Don't you think asking me to strip is a bit too extreme?"

"I don't think so, especially when I am dying to see you naked."

Susan gritted her teeth, "And you think you would achieve that through a lame game?"