Page 113 of The Duke's Indecent Match

Nathanial’s fingers stilled.

“That is not quite the same, and you know it.Besides, it is not done out of loyalty but necessity.Especially if I am going to establish my sisters with any kind of good standing.”

That was true enough.The family would have been ostracized if Nathanial had not made good on his father’s debts, especially considering the number of high-ranking nobles his father had owed large sums of money to.Which was not fair, but it was how Society worked.

Whereas the only person ostracizing Kalina had been her husband.

“I wanted you to talk to me,” she muttered.“And I felt guilty because… he’s my father.”

“I admire your loyalty to him, but I’d prefer your loyalty be to me,” Nathanial said quietly.

“It is!”

“Is it?I had to discover that you had misled me on your own.I cannot help but wonder if that was at least partly to ease things for your father.”

Well, he was not entirely wrong there.Kalina was not sure what she should do about it.She stayed silent because she now felt guilty.She had not deceived Nathanial when it came to tricking him into her room—that had been her father.But she had deceived him when she’d allowed him to think that she’d been a part of the plot.

Which meant she could not entirely blame him for being upset with her.

If she thought he’d wronged her, and he had not, she would also be very upset to discover that he had accepted responsibility for the deed and let her think that he was guilty when, in fact, he was innocent.So, by trying to make things right between them, she had actually wronged him.

And it was far too early in the morning to be trying to pick through such a Gordian Knot.

“I think I need to demonstrate how thoroughly you areminenow,” Nathanial said.“Stay right here.Do not move.”

He got up from the bed, leaving her bent over on her knees, warmed bottom in the air, and facing her pillow.Long strands of her hair hung down on one side of her head.

What was he doing?

She wanted to know.

But he’d told her not to move.

So, she did not move.

Her ears strained to hear him instead, and she did not have long to wait before he came back into her room.The bed moved and dipped as he climbed back on, this time positioning himself directly behind her rather than at her side.

What did he mean that he was going to demonstrate that she was his?

Something prodded at the entrance to her bottom, slick and hard.His fingers.She’d become accustomed to penetrating that tiny hole at this point, though usually with his mouth on her pussy when he did so.Without that distraction, the sensation of his fingers pushing into the narrow passageway was far more intense.

“Oh!”She rocked forward, but his other hand grasped her hip, holding her in place.

“You’ve been very naughty, Kalina,” he said firmly as his fingers twisted inside her, going deeper, spreading the slick lubrication he’d coated them with along her tight channel.

She gasped as he moved his fingers with purpose, stretching her open.

It hurt, and it didn’t.

It was incredibly uncomfortable but somehow pleasurable at the same time.

And she would happily take the discomfort to please him.

For some reason, being told she was naughty while he inflicted a perversely naughty act on her bottom made her arousal climb and her pussy pulse.

“I understand you will always be loyal to your parents and your brother, but your loyalty belongs first and foremost to me.”The fingers retreated.He shifted behind her, and something much thicker pressed against the loosened entrance.Pressed and moved, making her gasp and shudder as it began to stretch her far wider than his fingers had.

His cock, she thought faintly.He is putting his cock there.“You will not tell me a falsehood again, not even to protect your father.”