Chapter Thirty Six
Another Offer
“What are you doing?” he asked, voice cracking with need as she re-entered the room to stand by the chair she had just vacated; in possession of the answer she had been in no doubt he would give and deigning to find him sincere enough to resume where they left off.
Not answering, she slipped her filmy nightshirt back over her head; encouraged still further by the fear she saw written across his face at what he had taken as an intention to leave.
“I am a little cold,” she told him, taking her seat once again; the fear she saw changing to relief placing any earlier misgivings regarding success in perspective.
“You have him on your hook,” she laughed to herself. “All that remains is to reel him in.”
“Convince me you are truly serious and not playing a ga
