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how badly he’d screwed up with her.
    “ I was talking out of my head before.” She nodded and pulled his wrist to her and took his pulse. He was sure it was elevated, because he couldn’t get out of his mind the way she’d looked when he’d arrived in this room.
    “ You’re going to need to get up and moving. You’ll get pneumonia if you don’t, and I’d very much like to have my bed back.” Thad wanted to offer her half of it with him still in it but kept his mouth closed. “I’ll have Grandmother bring you your cell phone up too. It’s been ringing like crazy, and we’ve kept it charged for you.”
    Thad nodded and realized she was leaving him again. “Stay please. I’d like to…I think I might have said some things to you that I shouldn’t have. At least not until we get to know one another better.”
    “ We won’t. Be getting better acquainted, I mean. I have enough on my plate right now.” She fussed with a bag hanging on the back of the door before she turned to him again. “And you didn’t say anything important, if that’s what you’re thinking.”
    Anger pulsed through him for a split second, and he directed it at her. “I think I offered to buy you a sexy nightie and tie you to my bed. Are you telling me that you’ve no desire to have either one? I can assure you that I’m a very generous Dom if my sub is a good girl.”
    Thad saw it. It was quick and hot, but she was interested. He wanted to try out something on her, anything, but right now he was too weak to make her obey or punish her if she were to disobey him. And Thad found he really wanted her to disobey him.
    “ I don’t…I don’t play, Mr. Galloway. I don’t think…I know that if I did, you’d be the last man on earth I’d want to do that with.” She was out the door before he could form an answer. She didn’t slam the door behind her, she might as well have for all the effort she put into not slamming it. Laughing, he leaned back on the headboard and thought about little Miss Diamond all pinked up from his hands and paddle. He had a raging hard-on and no relief in sight when Annabelle came in a few minutes later with a tray and his cell phone.
    “ I’m sorry I can’t stay but I’ve another pie in the oven. I’ve been experimenting with some of the fruits I picked up at the market.” She set the tray over his lap and smiled. “Will you be all right until I can get back up here? Just call the house phone if you need me. I’ve written it down on the pad there.”
    She was gone before he could thank her. Looking down at the food on the tray made him think she had brought him his dinner too, but when he put the first spoonful of the rich broth into his mouth, he had to have it all. He didn’t think there had ever been a better meal.
    He must have dozed off, because when he woke, his tray was gone and there was a pile of his clothes lying on the chair next to the bed. He took the note off the top and read it.
    “ You should want a shower about now, so if you feel like an adventure, call downstairs and I’ll come up and help you. Later. Blair.”
    He stretched and felt pretty good , so he decided to take a shower on his own. He got up slowly because he wasn’t stupid enough to think his leg was as well as it felt and stood up. He was naked, he realized, and wondered if Diamond had undressed him. His cock started to dance a little, and he had to have a stern talk with it before he moved to the bathroom.
    “ She’s made it perfectly clear that she’s not interested in us. Not that we won’t try and convince her otherwise, but for now we have to be good.” He stroked his cock, thinking about her being naked with him. “She’s lovely and oh so ready for us.”
    He brushed his teeth as the water warmed up in the stall behind him. He was feeling a little weak but nothing he couldn’t handle. Thad stepped into the spray and thought about his leg and leaned down to have a look at the wound he had gotten in the