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gray from it.
    “I’m sorry if I hurt you,” he whispered.
    Millicent looked at him like she did not understand. Then her eyes widened, and she shook her head. “You didn’t hurt me. I just…” She looked down at the globe in her hands. “It was glowing.”
    A strange feeling overcame him as he stared down at the globe. In the study, before he had gone to Vivian’s apartment, he too thought the globe was glowing. And now she saw it. Could that crazy old gypsy be right, that the amethyst ball brought love to two lost souls?
    He crouched down on the floor behind her and kissed the back of her head, rubbed her shoulders and down her arms. “Will you let me stay with you tonight?”
    After a long pause, Millicent nodded. He smiled against her hair.
    Finally.
    He helped her stand and settled his arm over her shoulder, holding her close as they left the study and made their way up to her bedchamber. Even though her odd reaction after they made love still festered in his stomach, a feeling of contentment swept over him knowing that tonight he would finally lie beside his wife and hold her all night long.
    “I like this new you,” he said, smiling.
    Millicent looked up through watery eyes. “Really?”
    “And I must say, when I found you in your nightgown the other morning, that disheveled look made me hunger for you.”
    He opened the door to her chamber, took her hand, and led her to the bed. He cupped her shoulders and gently guided her onto the mattress. “You captivate me.” Her eyes glinted from the lamp light. They looked like jewels for a thief. He kissed her lips, gently, exploring the sweetness of her soft mouth. When she sighed and lay back, he took the globe from her hands and placed it on the nightstand.
    “We need to remove your dress. I think I deserve your naked flesh.”
    “Oh, really?” she teased. “Well, I think I need some persuasion…”
    Warden chuckled, enjoying their little game of cat and mouse. He removed his boots, slid off his coat and tossed it on the floor, and then worked the fastenings of his trousers, all the while staring at her. “Am I convincing?”
    The trousers slid down his legs, gaining her rapt attention. Next, his shirt and underwear slid to the floor until he stood naked and hard before her.
    Millicent licked her lips. “Oh, yes.”
    This was all new to him. Though he’d had many sexual encounters before his marriage, with a variety of women from innocent ladies to practiced actresses, this was the first time Warden had shed his clothing before a woman. It was surprisingly exhilarating.
    Millicent crawled off the bed like a feline in heat and bent down. She did not give him the chance to ask what she was about before she took him in hand and rained kisses all over his cockhead.
    He stared down at her in shock. When did she suddenly want to do this? But he would not argue. No. He was no fool, and his cock was so stiff he could hang his wardrobe from it. Hadn’t he wanted her to make love to him? To shed her cold exterior and give in to the heat he knew she was capable of?
    She knelt down on the floor before him, wrapped a fist around his shaft, and gently stroked his manhood. Good Lord. He gritted his teeth, trying to maintain control as Millicent impaled her mouth on him, over and over again, with such precision he nearly fainted. Her soft hands gently massaged his balls in stride with her sucking.
    He groaned as his world tilted. Heat crept up the back of his spine, and when the sudden orgasm erupted, it nearly shook him to the core.
    Warden cupped her shoulders to keep from falling over, still trembling from the intensity, and when Millicent swallowed, he looked at her in complete shock.
    “Where did you learn this?” he asked, completely befuddled. He took a seat at the edge of the bed, waiting impatiently for her response.
    Millicent blushed and turned her face away from him. “Um…”
    Her lack of an answer pricked a nerve. The heat of anger and betrayal