He’d expected that hearing her admit to her secret would dampen his ardor considerably. Instead, it had heightened it. He didn’t hold with betrayal or covert activity and that was exactly what she’d engaged in, in the hopes of bringing down the organization. She’d pretended not to know who he was. She’d pretended innocence over the league in the hopes of drawing him out. All lies, except one, and that had been her passion. When the confession came, by rights she should have been embarrassed over having been caught out. Instead, she’d braved it out with flashing eyes and a challenge that said she would not play the penitent here. She had matched his challenge with one of her own and he’d answered it with a kiss. “Are you seducing me to distraction?” she murmured beneath his lips. How he wanted more of her beneath him than just her mouth. They’d been playing two separate games, one of strategy and one of passion, but now the two had combined.
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