Even in the midst of their love-making he would find himself laughing at something she said, but even so when she was making love Kyril would make her lover believe that he was a King among men and there had never been anyone like him.
All men like being flattered and Lord Athelstan was no exception to the rule, but Kyril did it with subtlety to a point where he found himself believing all she told him and in consequence having a greater conceit of himself than he had before.
He wondered now as he approached her suite whether what he had suspected when she touched his lips a short time ago was true and their attraction for each other had really gone.
Where she was concerned he was not sure.
He had the feeling she did in fact find him, as she had in the past, someone who excited her to
