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moment, while his face was turned away from her. He hadn’t expected to spar with his bride during their wedding night, at least not verbally. “Far from it. I only question the validity of your sources. Once a piece of information changes hands too many times, it is often distorted.”
    “My information comes from a woman who has experienced this first hand!”
    “A married woman?” he asked politely.
    “Yes! And from the complaints I’ve been made to listen to during her visits, I daresay the poor woman is suffering dreadfully, having to endure her husband mounting her for his vile pleasure, leaving her in pain and shame on a nightly basis.” She lashed an accusatory glare at him. “I don’t care to share the same fate!”
    Relieved that Oriana’s objection to the marriage bed lay only in misinformation and was something he would be able to remove quickly and swiftly, he smiled.
    “I apologize, my dear Oriana. Of course, I would never subject you to shame and pain. No husband ever should. I fully understand your concerns now, and let me assure you that I have no intention of doing what your friend’s husband is subjecting her to.”
    He heard her sigh in relief, and noticed how her shoulders relaxed. “Thank you, signore. I’m pleased to know that you understand. I’m sure with this obstacle out of the way, our marriage will be an agreeable one.”
    Nico shook his head lightly, realizing that she had clearly misunderstood his words. “Agreeable? It will be more than that. And the obstacle that you speak of has not been removed. It has merely been pushed to the side for tonight.” With two long strides, he crossed the distance that separated them. “Because I promise you, when I take you to bed, you won’t feel shame or pain, you’ll feel pleasure and desire. And you won’t refuse my advances, because you’ll be begging me to drive into your sweet body and make you mine in every sense of the word.”
    Oriana’s face turned ashen. “Oh God!”
    Taking her hand, Nico brought it to his lips and placed a soft kiss on her knuckles. “For tonight I’ll let you rest, but tomorrow, I’ll show you how a husband treats his wife properly. And I promise you, when your married friend visits again, you won’t have any complaints to share with her. Whether you’ll want to confide in her how your husband makes you scream with pleasure, is for you to decide. Maybe, if she’s a good friend, you would want to give her details she may pass on to her husband, so she too may experience pleasure instead of shame.”
    Then he bowed and left her chamber, pulling the door shut behind him. Leaving her tonight was the hardest thing he’d ever had to do, but he knew it was necessary, because his wife had to be seduced—thoroughly. And in her current frightened state, she wouldn’t respond to him. He had to catch her off guard.
     

5
     
    Oriana tossed and turned half the night. Her husband’s words had shaken her. He wasn’t at all what she expected a husband to be like. First of all, he seemed utterly unconventional, repeatedly calling her by her given name and asking her to do the same. She’d refused and stoically continued to call him signore , even though she’d wanted to try out his name on her tongue.
    “Nico,” she whispered now that she was alone and nobody could hear her.
    But the words he’d said to her, his promise to take her to bed and that she would even beg him for it, were outrageous. She couldn’t allow this. From Ilaria, her friend, she knew how humiliating the experience was, and how painful at the same time. She wanted no part of it. And for certain he was hallucinating if he thought she would ever beg for it!
    Tonight she would lock her door as well as the connecting door between their chambers so he wouldn’t be able to gain access to her. Surely if she continued this long enough, he would give up and pursue his pleasures with some trollop he found in a tavern. But she, Oriana, would