"You make it very hard for me to be a gentleman, Darcy. But that's what you want, do you not? A proper, virtuous, boring gentleman." "Doesn't everyone want that?" I counter in a soft voice—one that doesn't seem convincing even to my ears. "That's what you think you want, darlin'," he drawls, his voice a combination of decadence wrapped in seduction. "But I know what you need."
