Lustful Intrigue: Forbidden Love Amidst Duty's Chains

ad stuffed into it outside the Bastard Sheikh's door, pressed into the jointure of her thighs. Outside the grimy window of the hack, dim shapes shifted in the lifting fog. Vendors shouted their wares

till, a rasping purr of English civility.

Y

ed. A woman like her could not possibly know the pr

over Becky in

lay in a woman's ability to receive pleasure as if

fume-his woman's perfum

if he had w

e had wallowed in the

rubbed every inch of his flesh

n image of darkly tanned skin pressing dow

lights flashed b

green. They were turquoise. The same c

in was Arabic, but his eyes belong

y had never been to, of plea

her as a woman an

rut, startling her eyes. Bracing herself,

e Bastard Sheikh, but they deserved pleasure, too, and she was not going to back do

will to that of her parents. She had spent an additional sixteen years be

re were twenty-one chapters in the

e mocking, knowing turqu

ything to get the know

ame to a toot

tination as opposed to being jammed in traffic again. It took her

changed in some obscure but overt manner in the past two hours. A change

ne shilling and

red up at

ight surrounded his head-the morning sun peering through the overlying clouds of smoke and fog that sur

prominent husband and two sons. Why co

he grabbed a florin and tossed

ed his hat. "Thank'ee, ma'am. W

ld pay the driver now to deliver the book back to the Ba

woman she had been last week

e took his satisfaction elsewhere, she had suppressed her physical

ge had been b

will, however, need one tomo

o the cabbie's face and revealed the youth that was his in years if

ly swallowed up in the morning stream of hor

home from his nocturnal carousing. Now she would have to think of some excuse a

er of awareness

e was wat

churning, s

no one on t

'erring! Git yer 'erring fer

g boy pushed a wheelbarrow, shouting his wares. Leani

pulled a wagon piled high with barrels. When it passed, Becky saw that the

servant, buying fresh

. No one knew that she had

his

cks to her townhome, she w

she could smel

pushing it open, Becky surprised her butl

art skipp

rance, she had given him her card to intim

ly, had passed the c

d. With the corner turned down to

ool has rules. His first rule was that s

an audience with him. Why would he

what d'ye thi

st as a pair of large, freckled

e, black jacket as