irs, breakfast was already on the table: f
. He'd clearly had a sleepless night. When he saw her,
picking up her phone. She di
ling to grace my morning?" Leo's flamboyan
heard the unfamiliar man's voice, the
ght and cheerful. "Leo, clear my af
!" Leo's voice was laced with a smile. "But seriously,
Situation at home? Who wa
rora said vaguely, then chatted with Leo about some i
ile he had failed to earn last night. A s
d his dark expression, his lips
action through her, washing away the last remnants of her bad mood. Controll
pour a little more
ed, her voice dripping with mock sweetness.
like daggers on the phone
hair. She walked over to him and hooked a fing
hroat. He could smell the faint, clean scent of her sk
tions on his face," she murmured, her
, "If you 'serve' me well, and make me happy, I might consider giving
lian's mind. For a sixteen-year-old boy
eyes grew wide with a flustered panic. She released his chin an
eart hammering. He replaye
e'll spend more time with him = he c
rfect sense in his s
nd cleaning were just basic duties. That wasn't e
rom the dregs of his adolescent
inished her bath and was drying
came at her
assuming it was the houseke
around his hips. Water droplets trickled down the hard planes of his abdomen. H
e hairdryer clattering to the flo
and resolve. He knelt before her on one knee, looked up, and
revealing a broad expanse of skin, while the firm lines of his muscles stretched inward from his knees. Beneat
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