Lucy took a deep breath. “If I agree to your ‘terms’ and give you what you want, will you agree to my terms?” Lucy met his eyes. Her heart was pounding in her chest, from fear but now more from the excitement she felt at the nearness of this man.

And then it was clear to her. She was where she wanted to be: in the arms of a man who could give her sexual pleasure and who was willing to show her how to pleasure him, how to make her his whore, but also his wife.

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