The Travelling Man (41 page)
But this time there was no terrified rejection, no shrinking from his caresses. This time it was how he had known it could be – all sweet surrender and an awakened passion that drove away every vestige of his carefully guarded control.
The pity of it was that Biddy, who had imagined this very moment, lived it for them, adding more than a few embellishments of her own, was fast asleep upstairs, totally oblivious of the fact that what was happening downstairs was more romantic than anything she’d ever read. Or was ever likely to.
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