Wife? In spite of everything, the trouble she'd put him to, to find her, the fact she'd whored herself in his bed for almost four days, that humiliating marriage, he fought the urge to laugh out loud. In five years, he'd never had a better adversary. The fact she was a woman only added to the piquancy.

Incredibly, just when he didn't want it to, the treacherous thought flashed back through his mind like a lightning bolt. He'd never had a better lover either.

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