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unrestricted view as the earl unfastened the buttons on his fitted evening trousers with ease. The flap tumbled forward and revealed he wore no undergarments as his rampant cock surged free.
    Her mouth went dry as she stared down at him. She had never seen Stephen’s member, all their sexual encounters having taken place in her darkened bedchamber, but she had always believed him to be a reasonably endowed gentleman.
    The cock now revealed to her showed her she had been completely wrong in that belief.
    At least nine inches in length and almost as thick around as her wrist, there were thick veins clearly defined along its length, the bulbous head slick with the juices leaking from the slitted tip.
    Sinclair Montgomery’s member was in perfect proportion to the rest of his impressively large body.
    Surely such a fierce-looking thing could never fit inside me—
    Of course it will not fit inside me, because it is never going to be inside me.
    “My lord.” Fliss dragged her gaze away from staring at that fiercely engorged cock. She raised her head with as much dignity as she could muster in the circumstances.
    Those circumstances being that they were both of them half-naked and moments ago, she had come completely undone in this gentleman’s arms, losing herself in the first physical pleasure she had ever known. Between her thighs was still damp and throbbing from that exquisite release.
    And whilst the earl might have every reason to expect a return of that pleasure, Fliss knew she did not have the experience to give it to him.
    Nor was this the time for her to learn.
    She raised her gaze to the height of one broad shoulder as she spoke. “My lord, I have had reason to call at Winterbourne House several times during these past weeks in the hope of speaking with you.”
    “You have?” He sounded cautious.
    She nodded. “The first day I called, you were out to lunch with your cousin, I believe?”
    “He has recently returned from his honeymoon.”
    “The next time I called, your butler informed me you had left London.”  
    “I was away at one of my estates.”
    “I am well aware of that,” she acknowledged.
    “Did you follow me here?” Sin had tensed warily. To his certain knowledge, he did not know this lady, had never seen her before today. He would have remembered her if he had.
    The fact that she had gone to such lengths to see him, those visits to Winterbourne House, her presence at Eckles Manor, waiting for him in his bedchamber, was disturbing to say the least.
    A ploy to somehow trick him into matrimony?
    Or something more sinister?  
    “Why?” he demanded coolly.
    Her chin rose determined. “The reason I tried to see you in London, the only reason I came to Eckles Manor and now waited for you in your bedchamber is so that I might warn you of a plot to kill you during your stay here.”

Chapter 4
    Sin stepped back to turn away and refasten his pantaloons as he considered this woman’s preposterous claim.
    Apart from a couple of lunches with his cousin Ranulf and his new wife, he had attended less than a handful of social engagements during the week or so he spent in London. Deliberately so, having delayed his arrival there to coincide with the end of the Season and so enabling him to keep social engagements to a minimum. At none of those social events had he conversed with nor spent time enough with any one person to have incited murderous feelings toward him. At least he did not believe he had.
    “Allow me.” Sin stepped behind the tiny dark-haired woman. He could see she was struggling to hold her gown in front of her in a belated attempt to protect her modesty as she tried to refasten the buttons at its back. Buttons he had minutes ago undone without thought or conscience.
    There would be no more lovemaking tonight. Indeed, the sooner this lady explained herself fully, the better.
    She had already revealed that her pursuit of him had been nothing short of determined, and her reason for having