Chapter SixLencia stared at the Duc in astonishment.
Then, as he crossed the room, she asked him,
“What has – happened? Why are you – here?”
“I have come to finish our conversation,” the Duc replied gently.
“But you should not come into my bedroom,” Lencia protested. “Please go – away.”
The Duc smiled and, as he came nearer, he gazed at her.
He thought that he had not seen her look quite so lovely.
Her fair hair was falling over her shoulders and she was wearing one of her mother’s diaphanous nightgowns that she had thought would impress the housemaids.
It revealed the curves of her breasts.
Then, as she saw the Duc looking at her, she pulled up the sheet to cover them.
“You must – go – away,” she said sternly, but her voice trembled a little.
The Duc then sat down on the side o
