RELUCTANT WIFE 26

‘Witch, when are you going to learn that I will only be pushed so far. This wasn’t meant to happen here!’

‘Where was it supposed to happen?’

He laughed. ‘Not on a chaise longue in the study.’

Carrie stood, naked in the semi-darkness of the room and was aware of his intent gaze upon her breasts, she smiled, murmuring softly as she bent her lips to his, ‘I liked it in the study.’ Then she laughed wickedly, and rekindling a special time when he’d embarrassed her, she said, ‘Mr Stephanides did it in the study, with his lead pipe!’

‘Why, you cheeky little baggage.’ He leant forward and caught her nipple in his teeth, making her breath catch in her throat. ‘So you do remember playing Cluedo with me?’

‘Maybe we should play it in the ballroom?’ she asked with an arch of her brow.

He shook his head. ‘Dress, now! Ple-a-se!’

They returned to the party, hand in hand. Alexis left her in the hallway for mere seconds to retrieve two glasses of pink champagne. He handed her one, and clinked her glass