Rogue for Hire by Sasha Cottman

Author:Sasha Cottman [Cottman, Sasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

LORD HARRY STEELE had done some really stupid things in his life. He’d engaged in downright dangerous activities, which had brought him to the brink of death more than once. Taking Alice to a secret London sex club was right up there with the best or worst of his choices.

He was already having second thoughts by the time the carriage pulled into the rear mews of a plain brick building in Jermyn Street. No one was foolish enough to enter the Temple of Diana by way of the front entrance.

When the club’s footman opened the carriage door, Harry waved him away. “Give us a minute, Janus, will you?”

Janus politely backed away and stood out of earshot. The staff at this establishment were well-trained in protecting their clients’ privacy.

Harry paused for a moment in an attempt to collect his thoughts. Bringing Alice to one of London’s notorious sex clubs was a risk. If she didn’t take it the way he hoped she would, it was more than likely any possible chance he had for winning her heart would be left stone dead.

“What is it?” she asked.

“Inside that building is a club called the Temple of Diana. It is full of men and women who have escaped their cages and embraced who they are; I want you to see them because that is the world to which I belong.”

Alice frowned, and Harry inwardly cursed himself for having put their relationship in peril. He waited. Any moment now, she would ask him to take her home and not to make mention of this night ever again. His greatest fear was that if she did just that, the growing connection between them would fracture and die.

Can you blame her?

“I see. But why have you brought me here? I am not of your world,” she replied.

Harry swallowed deeply. A wrong word or poorly put phrase and it could all be over between them before it had begun. “What if you were of my world—if, for a time, our lives were somehow bound together? Wouldn’t you want to know as much of me as you could? Because if we are to truly discover whatever this thing is between us, you need to understand who I am.”

Silence reigned once more. Alice turned her gaze from him to the fancy gold-tasseled trim of the curtains. She lifted a hand to them, running her fingers along their finely tailored edge. The tassels connected and released with her touch. “Yes, I would.”

And with that, Alice reached for the door. Harry followed; his heart thumping so hard in his chest that it echoed in his ears.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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