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“Next time,” he confirmed, knowing one night with this woman would never be enough.

“I— You— I don’t?—”

Rufus grinned at her inability to form a complete sentence.

He sobered. “I never, at any time, said I didn’t want you, Molly. I just want you to be sure. You’ve now told me, as an autonomous woman more than capable of making your own choices, that you are,” he repeated her own words back at her. “So, we’re going upstairs, getting in the shower together, and I’m going to start orgasming the hell out of you.”

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Wow, when Rufus decided he was going to do something, he certainly went all in!

Verbally, at least.

Looking at Rufus’s face, taking in his single raised eyebrow over those challenging green eyes, Molly was absolutely certain he would follow through on the promise to give her so many orgasms she passed out from the pleasure.

Just thinking about it made her panties wet and her nipples hard.

She held out her hand. “Then I suggest you come upstairs with me.”

His much larger hand and longer fingers closed firmly about hers. “I’ve only been waiting for the invitation to do so.”

Molly had no idea what she was doing.

For years, she had been afraid of doing anything that might remind her of what she had realized in adulthood must have been her mother’s promiscuous behavior. Molly had once asked her mother who her father was, only to be told that Sarah had absolutely no idea, that she had been involved with several men at the time of Molly’s conception.

Molly had never been sure whether Sarah was telling the truth, because there had never seemed to be a shortage of money to pay for her mother’s alcohol, cigarettes, and the designer clothes she liked to buy, and which had filled the long wall of wardrobes in her bedroom. Had, because Molly had discovered those clothes were all gone when she returned home from school that day and then never seen her mother again.

As an adult, Molly had wondered if her mother had demanded maintenance from all the men she had been involved with at the time of Molly’s conception. Without them knowing about each other, of course. As none of them had shown the slightest interest in being present in Molly’s life, Sarah’s subterfuge would never have been discovered.

It would certainly explain why, when Sarah had never worked a day in her life, she’d always had so much money to spend.

Whatever her mother’s machinations might have been, Molly had never wanted to be like her. In any way.

Which meant that not only was she still a virgin, but she had absolutely no sexual experience whatsoever.

CHAPTER SEVEN

Rufus had absolutely no idea where Molly’s thoughts had gone, but nor was he going to ask her questions about them. He’d almost lost her the last time he did that.

Whatever Molly was thinking or feeling, she was an adult and, as she had so firmly told him, capable of making her own decisions. He liked her enough to respect her and that claim.

“Shall we come down for him later, or would you prefer to take him with us now?”

Molly turned to look at him inquiringly, color blazing in her cheeks when she saw he was looking at the first kennel where Angus sat watching them with bright and expectant eyes.

Rufus chuckled. “Once Mia told me how fond you are of Angus, I realized why you were so lacking in warmth toward my remark about possibly adopting him.”

Molly looked stricken. “Do you think Mia knows I take him up to my apartment with me in the evenings?”

Mia had already told him that she knew. “If she does, she isn’t concerned by it.”

Molly winced. “He’s just so cute and affectionate, and I—well, I’ve appreciated having his company at night.”

He grimaced. “I’m not sure if this helps to make you feel safer, but some of my men check the premises twenty-four-seven for intruders or any other security breach.”

“They’re your men I’ve seen creeping about the grounds at night?”

“I— Well, yes, I suppose they are— Hey,” he protested when Molly slapped him on the chest. Not because it hurt, but because he had absolutely no idea what the hell he’d done to deserve it.

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