I pulled my husband back to the solar, determined to have the lovemaking so long overdue. I had never seduced a man but the approval in Merlyn’s smile told me that I fared well enough. I recalled suddenly Fitz’s jest about all the women his lord had bedded during our separation. It was no matter—I resolved to drive the recollection of each and every one of them from Merlyn’s memory forever, and to do so on this day.
I unbuckled my own belt and cast it aside, hooked my fingers beneath my pelisse and discarded it without care for its cost. My robe immediately followed, then I unknotted the tie of my chemise beneath Merlyn’s avid gaze. I strolled across the chamber, knowing that the light from the candles would glow through the thin linen of my chemise, and locked the portal.
“Now there is
