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"And God, Penny…” He nipped the tender skin of her inner thigh, and she released a weak whimper, a sound that had his gaze shooting to hers. “Force thoughts of your beauty aside because you have more of it than a person should be allowed, more than I’ve ever been gifted. Know that you’re more to me than the physical. I want you, all of you. And I mean, with your leave, to have you.”

*dead*

Without comment, he held out his glass. When she took it, he shrugged from his coat in one of those masculine shows of graceless elegance that made her toes curl. She turned, presenting her back, unable to suppress her shiver when he dropped the woolen weight upon her shoulders.

this.

“Let’s be reasonable, shall we? You’re an American. Lost brother to a duke. Handsome. Wealthy. Things making you, perhaps tactlessly, a curiosity.”
Ah, finally something in this exchange he could work with. West flashed a grin he’d been told was wolfish by a countess last week, a word he hoped to wiggle into conversation as he rather liked it. “You think I’m handsome?”

love this kind of interaction 🤗