Taken by the Earl (Regency Unlaced 3)

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a short time ago.” Her cheeks warmed at the reason for that distraction. “But I assure you, my only purpose in seeking you out was to tell you a gentleman, one of the other guests here, fully intends to kill you.”
    The earl looked down the long length of his haughty nose at her. “The name of this gentleman?”
    “I do not know his name.”
    “How does he intend to kill me?”
    “I do not know that either.” Fliss became flustered at the number of the things she did not know about this situation.
    Even so, it had never occurred to her that when she finally found and spoke to the earl, he would not believe her warnings.  
    Fliss frowned. “I am well aware of how this must all sound to you.” She had not realized how much until she actually spoke the words out loud. “But I assure you, I really did overhear a conversation two weeks ago in which a man and a woman discussed disposing of you during the Eckles’s house party.”
    The earl raised dark brows. “What man and which woman?”
    “ I do not know! ”
    “But you said—”
    Fliss looked down at her clenched hands. “I could not see their faces, only hear their conversation.”
    “How so?” Their own conversation was doing little to convince Sin as to the truth of her warning.
    This woman had a viper’s tongue in her when she chose to use it. In the last few minutes, she had cast aspersions on his intelligence and called him stupid, all brawn and no brain. It might have been amusing under any other circumstances.
    “I… When I attend social engagements”—once again her gaze avoided meeting Sin’s—“I often find occasion in which to seek seclusion from the—the noise and merriment.”
    Having spent only a matter of days in that Society, and now at Eckles Manor, Sin could wholly sympathize with the sentiment.
    “On the occasion I refer to, I had sought refuge in the library and was seated in one of the bay windows reading a book when the couple came in.”
    “They did not see you?”
    She shook her head. “The curtains were drawn across the alcove. Once I realized I had company, and—and what they were doing, I—I made sure they did not know I was there.”
    “And what were they doing…?”  
    “The man—I cannot refer to him as a gentleman, because he was not—forced the woman to her knees and ordered her to carry out unspeakable acts—”
    “What unspeakable acts?”
    Her eyes flashed a deep and stormy gray. “They would not be unspeakable if I could speak of them.”
    Which gave Sin a fair idea of what one of those acts might have been. Even so, what a couple chose to do when they were alone together—or believed they were alone together—was their own affair and not for others to judge. He was rather partial to having his own cock sucked on the right occasion and by the right woman.
    “I am not a prude, if that is what you are thinking.” The high color in Mrs. Randall’s cheeks indicated she was deeply embarrassed to be talking of such things, despite having been married.
    Despite the fact I had my hands and mouth all over her only minutes ago.
    Sin wondered what sort of man her husband might have been that she reacted so shyly. Older, perhaps. Much older. His libido waning. It would certainly explain her having seemed more than a little shocked after being privy to such intimacies as this couple appeared to have been indulging in. But then, he had noted that many women in Society appeared to live on their nerves for one reason or another.
    It might also explain why this woman might have set her sights on a much younger and virile gentleman as her next husband. Namely him.
    “The man was forcing the woman to do these…acts as payment for him having agreed to kill you,” she continued with determination.
    “Forcing?”
    “Her whimpers and groans sounded pained rather than pleasurable.” Her cheeks colored. “The man, in contrast, seemed highly delighted these acts were to continue once he returned to London and
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