The Courtesans Daughter by Claudia Dain

Author:Claudia Dain
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-12-11T02:22:17+00:00

“You have no desire to be anything with your wife,” she said. “You didn’t even want a wife!”

“Don’t be absurd, Caro,” he said, cutting into his beefsteak. “It was my duty to take a wife.”

“That is not the same as wanting a wife.”

Ashdon looked up at her, his blue eyes piercing into hers. She was getting rather sick of that as well. Ash could go about with his piercing eyes elsewhere, where he could blissfully pierce some other woman with them.

Which only showed how outraged she was since she would happily kill any woman who was pierced, blissfully or otherwise, by Ashdon’s eyes… or any other part of his anatomy.

“You know very well I wanted you,” he said.

“And I know very well what you wanted me for,” she said, pushing her chair back and standing up. She felt the overwhelming urge to pace and she saw no reason not to give in to her urges.

“I should think you would,” he said, leaning back in his chair, tipping the front legs off the floor, “as you worked diligently and most provocatively to bring me to that state of desire.”

“So you admit I trapped you.”

“I admit nothing of the sort. Do you think yours are the only kisses I have enjoyed? The only breasts I have fondled? The only nipples I have-”

“Yes, yes, I take your point,” she said, feeling a blush rising from her nipples, one pair out of thousands he had apparently tasted, the brute.

“I don’t think you do, Caro,” he said, breaking off a bit of muffin to pop into his mouth. That he could sit quietly and calmly eating while she was trembling in fear and longing and confusion, like any normal bridegroom, made her want to poke him in the eye with something sharp.

Honestly, she had never had a violent thought in her life until she had met Ashdon. He was a horrible, degrading influence on her. She wouldn’t be past her rights to kill him for it.

“Oh?” she said sharply. “Wasn’t your point that you’ve seen thousands upon thousands of breasts and chose mine from among the throng because it was time for you to marry?”

“Well, they are lovely breasts,” he said with a smile. “Quite as advertised.”

He had the nerve to laugh at her? Caro looked around for something sharp, something that would look like a plausible accident. The candlesticks on the dining table might do the job. She could say he had an attack of some sort, fell forward, and impaled himself on the silver. It was such a pleasing image.

“ So glad that you found them satisfactory, Lord Ashdon,” she said. “I don’t know what I would have done had you found my breasts less than pleasing to your jaded eyes.”

“Oh, I’m not as jaded as all that,” he said, popping another bit of muffin into his mouth. Hadn’t there been a general back fifty years or so ago who had choked and died on a muffin? Certainly it was possible for it to happen again, perhaps with a bit of help?

“Another muffin, Lord Ashdon?” she asked.

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