Tempting the Bluestocking_A Gentleman Courtesans Novella by Victoria Vale

Author:Victoria Vale [Vale, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B07VPPYBPY
Publisher: Victoria Vale
Published: 2019-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

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“May I ask you a rather personal question?” Clare asked hours later from across the dining room table.

After they’d awakened, his growling stomach had sent her into a fit of giggles, then prompted her to invite him to stay and dine with her. Since he knew his sister had plans with a friend and her chaperone for the evening, he had no pressing reason to return home. He also had no desire to dine alone, so he had taken her up on her offer.

Retrieving his discarded clothing, he’d put himself together as well as he could manage while she had retreated to her dressing room. Before long they were ensconced in the dining room with several dishes spread out between them and lit tapers casting a warm glow over the intimate settling. She had banished the servants so they could be alone, and they’d been serving themselves from the various offerings filling the table.

They had eaten in companionable silence until now, when Clare’s question had broken through the quiet.

“Of course you can,” he replied.

After all the things she’d revealed about her family and her first unremarkable experience with intercourse, he certainly didn’t feel as if he had the right to hold back. Besides, they were as well acquainted physically as two people could be at this point. What could it hurt to let her know something about him other than the feel of his hands, mouth, and cock?

Pausing with a cluster of peas in her spoon, she glanced up at him, seeming prepared to mince words for the first time since he’d met her. Which could mean only one thing.

“You want to know how I became a courtesan,” he stated, taking the burden of finding the right words off her shoulders.

She flushed pink, but gave a swift nod. “I’m simply curious. I never knew male courtesans existed, so I find myself wanting to know how a man comes into such a profession.”

Slouching a bit in his chair, he reached for his wineglass. “I actually did not know male courtesans existed either, until very recently. I happen to be friends with a man who’s been at it for a year, and he told me it’s been quite lucrative for him. I decided it wouldn’t be such a hardship, bedding a beautiful woman for money.”

For a moment, he wondered if she would find such a sentiment distasteful. Bedding a man who’d been bought with a bank draft was far different than discussing it over dinner.

But, he ought to have expected her to simply peer at him through her spectacles with an inquisitive look and launch into her next question.

“So…I am your first keeper then?”

“You are.”

She took a sip of her wine and then smiled at him. “Am I what you expected?”

“No,” he replied. “You’re better than I expected, in more ways than one.”

“I do take pleasure in surprising people,” she quipped.

“Well, you achieved that the moment you burst out laughing after learning why I was naked in your bed. In all my twenty-seven years of life, I’ve never been more shocked.

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