Love with the Proper Husband by Victoria Alexander

Author:Victoria Alexander
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061796739
Publisher: HarperCollins

Chapter 10

A man’s previous experience is important only insofar as it guarantees he knows what he is doing. And guarantees as well that he does it with a certain amount of skill. Such things may be improved with practice but simply cannot be taught.

Colette de Chabot

“You did that very well.” Gwen rested her chin on Marcus’s chest and gazed up at him. Starlight drifted in from the windows with the breeze to cast a luminous glow on her face and reflect in her eyes. “Or at least, given what I was told to expect, I think you did that very well. I was quite impressed.”

Marcus tried not to sound as smug as he felt. Or as satisfied. “Thank you. I do what I can.”

“I daresay you have a lot of experience.”

“Some,” he said cautiously.

She quirked a skeptical brow.

“Some,” he repeated firmly. In his experience it was never wise to give one’s current lover too much information about one’s previous lovers.

“With many women?” Her manner was offhand, belying the danger lurking in her words.

“Some.” Nor was it smart to reveal how many previous lovers there were. Women were exceedingly strange about information like that. If, in their estimation, a man had too few lovers, his nature was in question. Too many and his character was at stake.

She widened her eyes innocently. “A great many?”

“I have never particularly considered it a great many, although I do think a great many itself is rather vague.”

“How many then? Exactly?”

“First of all, my dear Lady Pennington, a gentleman does not reduce such things to something as impersonal as statistics. In addition, it is neither proper nor honorable either to keep some sort of tally or to reveal it. Furthermore, such things are never discussed with ladies, particularly one’s wife.”

“Really?” She shook her head thoughtfully. “I should think a wife would be the one lady you could discuss such things with.”

“Then your thinking would be wrong,” he said in a firm tone he hoped clearly conveyed the end of this particular topic. Not that he was confident she would pay any attention.

Even in the faint light he could see the gleam in her eye. “Then what is appropriate to discuss with a wife?”

“I’m not entirely certain, never having had a wife before.” He tightened his arms around her and rolled over to trap her beneath him. “This, I should think”—he nuzzled the base of her throat—“is always an appropriate subject for discussion.”

“Is it?” she murmured. “What else?”

“Oh, I don’t know. This perhaps.” He ran a line of light kisses up to a point just beneath her ear he had found was exceptionally sensitive, and earned a shiver from her for his troubles. He couldn’t resist a satisfied grin. “And possibly this—”

“Marcus.” She nudged him up and met his gaze, the starlight reflecting the far too serious gleam in her eyes. “I need to arrange for new clothes. An entirely new wardrobe really. All of my clothes are dreadful, you said so yourself.”

“Did I?” He stifled a

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