Ashcombe-TheMasksofDesire02

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& _' y$ d0 h8 ]7 @% o6 f(Ch. 02)soppingwetpanties a read, One: A Conscience. guidance. a fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, merchandise, companies, author's a manner. persons, dead, coincidental. 18 older.* * * wasn't a conversation. hour. bachelors, Martin, Montreval, Lydia's entrance. all, Ashecombe's ton, indispensable. Fairleigh, flushed, a ballroom."It a tear. a minutes. You've card. delivered!" mother's stare. estate, a repaired. Instead, Fournier's Delacroix, Haversham's cottage, Gilbert's Monique's womanhood. a Fairleigh, twenty, a system, a revelation, desires."I'm mama. a repair. here?" offered. tear. excuse. a glance, away."I there's you're me.""It's truth," sputtered. wasn't.* * * couldn't home, mother, coach. worried. a girl, impressionable, a elements, good. something. mother. traffic, Lydia, form. darkness, a wasn't friend's Chadwick's a Lisette, Fournier, Monique. a road. estate, a Crescent, Ashecombe. patriarch, Fairleigh, prior, Fairleigh, attractive, wealthy, widow. daughters, Eleanor, estate, Anne, Pembroke, youngest, Lydia, daughters.Lydia's door."Miss Lydia," said, down. vehicle, pavement. impressive, a columns, forty. door, her. couldn't mind."You'll you're ready," night. a expected, forgotten. nothing. bedroom, a study. wasn't a children's floor. a a bedroom, study. home, mattress. Monique's Gilbert's again, legs, pleasure. time, though, touch. it, Gilbert's Monique's vagina, Lydia's presence. d, untamed, squeeze. Gilbert's Monique's tongue, seed, a impropriety, a blonde.Lydia's bed, quivered. tightly, eyelids. forbidden. shameful. wicked. glorious.* * * normal, a air. a a walks. windows, a twenty, a morning. breakfast. ham, toast, apples, currant, garden. Clara. chatter, ball. plate. noticed."Lydia," said, cup, "you a down.""I tired.""Tired?" pleasantly. "One ball."A Lydia's lips."Nearly dance," corrected."Indeed," said. Lydia's Lydia's ball. up. observation. nothing. a uncomfortable."What?" asked."Nothing.""You me.""I am.""Then thinking." a toast."I witness."Lydia's teacup. eyebrow."Interesting," said. "I thing.""Whatever mean?" a Eleanor."There a morning.""A glow?""Yes." laughed."I glow.""There is," replied. "You a secret.""I secret.""No?""No."A tea. a quickly. exchange."You a evening.""I I going.""To repaired.""It repair.""And yet," said, "you expected.""The time.""I see." concentration. chair."And time?""Of course.""How fortunate." sharply."What mean?""Nothing all.""It something." coffee."Then I a seamstress." a napkin. cheeks. tea. breakfast. questions. Lydia's disappearance. Delacroix's approximately period. Fournier's cottage. together. listened. indeed. (and wiser) sister."You me.""Not slightest," immediately. laughed. convinced. teacup. made. offered. Lydia's words. cottage, thing. happened. Lydia's arose, indeed.* * * changed.Nothing, truth, outwardly. Manor's gardens. room. bachelors, cards, entertainments. a before. a axis. a irrelevant. Fournier, Delacroix, cottage, vividly. Monique's command. Gilbert's submission. forbidden.* * * day, sale. encouraged. appointment, Fairleigh, Refuge. Lisette, Fournier, question. mother."No dawdling," leave."I fabrics.""Then I ones." dutifully.* * * a sky, familiar, different. there, a cottage. happened, altered, a woman. distance, window. there? a it? a arrival. silk, starch, lavender, her, her, comfort. a room. ever, a wool, standards, elegance. A wrists. A neck. pins, eyes. Lydia. wasn't a a greeting, a satisfaction. returned. ball.Now, again, herself. force. tightened. quickened. breathing. it."It's you, Fairleigh," said, cottage.Lydia's shop. Fournier."Where Madame...""In Paris, mother. ago." alone. Suddenly, didn't a business, Monique's lair. a haltingly."About night..." interrupted. "It calling, not? truth." time. there, crossed, waiting."I I away.""You doing. back.""How I shadows? truth. I'm deception, I it."Monique's serious."You cautious." voice. tighten."What openly," continued. gaze. true. painful."That fair.""No," softly. "It not." a spoke. a silence. eyes."Then I things?"A Monique's lips."I that." blinked."You have?" nodded."Several ago." her. a longing, planning."How?""There a I know."Lydia's darkened. laughed."Oh, alarmed.""I alarmed.""You are." Frenchwoman's widened."It charming." arms."Who gentleman?""Lord Blackthorne." familiar. so, enough."The Yorkshire?""The same."Lydia's rose. money. nobility, wealthy, influential, exceptionally connected. nodded."He father's death.""And him?""Quite well." intended. twenty, accounts, Oxford, a shipping, banking, holdings. a residence, Richmond, Yorkshire, a Ashecombe. importantly, unmarried."Why this?""Because I him." stared, Monique's a stranger."You what?" herself."I you."A fear, embarrassment Lydia."What him?""That intelligent, beautiful, stubborn, worry." cheeks. continued."And a gentleman.""Monique.""It true." unsuccessfully a smile."What say?""He agreed.""Agreed what?""To acquaintance." closer."He I asked." immediately. world.A behind. voice."There masks, Lydia. imagine."Monique's sparkled."Within a days, society.""And delighted.""Ecstatic." herself. still. eyes."Invitations ordinary.""And respectable," in."Exactly." a anticipation.

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5 k8 q. s% Q0 k* ^/ a"For week." met. them. uncomfortable. awkward. dangerous. quietly.

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"You young. things?" asked.
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"From mother, course."

* * * workroom, a curtain. Fournier's street. building, piles. Fournier's bolt. room. tables.

"You be," started. "You time. leave?" a breath.
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7 y. x3 i5 ~7 k) O$ ^"No." Lydia's floor, her.

"You've a man, you?" asked.
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"No." shoulders.

"You a woman. you. here."
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2 z2 N5 R; |9 d2 M2 X* t- j# o"My trust," continued. "If forward, other."

"I understand," said, didn't. princess. a pleasure. a Monique's captivated.

& v8 h2 y( j0 ^5 B5 O"You don't, will," her. "The friends, members. lives, soul, other. bond. built, boundless. relationship."

"I me," confessed.
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& s3 j% c7 w4 K0 o8 n) h: n  u. C"Of not. I'm read. meet." a calfskin. Paris. Lydia.
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, T4 s8 T/ Z# O( I2 d! I"A book?" asked.

1 J9 u" ?- b- ]" ^8 s"It a book. It's a lifestyle. me," said. before. herself. Désir
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(The Desire)

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% M6 |6 |( q4 u: ]"This book. about?" innocently. a smile. A times. story.

& F" U0 n( N" j"It masks," answered, question. "The us, ourselves. a a woman, Celeste, obedience. a unquestionable world."

: x4 O  e6 N5 X"A memoir. true?"

0 b8 H) ~. K6 u' B* j& `/ t1 R"So claims." nervously, over, reference. page, shivered.

"Is wicked?" asked, was.

"Oh, terribly," lightly. "At that's interesting. it, I answer. That's here." silent. closer. Monique's perfume, Paris, a Blackthorne.
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- ]2 i0 P4 ?' k  b  F8 H"It a children, Lydia." a comment.
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"I a child."
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  Q0 W' m* D+ A# o5 ?; E; Z% g"No, cheri, not. I it." argument. book? nature? desires? why. louder. wonderment.
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"I Celeste," her. impressed. a her. beautiful. she, pleasurable. quickly.

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"That correct."
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"And you... comtesse."

"That's you, Lydia. I other."

Lydia's off. much, fast. mother, family, with.

+ K: Z5 X# L/ K) i2 P- _5 F"I'm afraid, Monique." hand. woman, embrace.

"All well," Lydia's ear. "I protected. one, book." cheek, a affection.

"Someday, pet, Blackthorne."
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"For discretion," smile. Marquis. same, thought.
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Lydia's silk. Désir Desire. dangerous. roads, a cottage. acts. more. it. Instead, it. her. book. a choice. refused. not. not. uncomfortably seat, guilt. literature. astray. it, it. a warmth. pages. curiosity. more. bedroom. door.

"Shall I bedroom, Lydia?" asked, silk.
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"No!" back, footman, a back.

; o: F9 U% O* w) Z9 _"Apologies," said. composure. "Thank you, Thomas, I myself."

"As wish," answered, eye.

" F( a) G+ P% d* * * still. a club, presided, Refuge, Eleanor. arm, floor. Clara. Eleanor's blonde, landing.

"You're here," exclaimed, throat.

3 g# d. x6 d1 c% }* y) S: E"I I here," factly.
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; O2 |8 ?" x. y4 W"But... I Clara," stammered, composure.

  e8 X* w5 s+ ~3 P+ R% v8 j7 v2 S"I I behind. I home?"

; r' l. s% V% Q' x- y"Of not," said, stairs. sister, silk.

- t, V  }& t: n% v+ r( S( L3 B" V"Is dress?" asked. "May I it?" Lydia.
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# F; q/ K4 A/ ?  l& L1 V"No!" a home. forcefully. Eleanor's sharpened. amiss.
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# t$ `  m5 x4 ?" \# Q: p"Since me?" refused. Eleanor's matters.
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"I away," said. fabric. sister, Lydia's a thud. react. book's cover, a title.

3 z* Y5 w8 r  _  E4 M2 F"A French?"
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: z9 b) j2 b8 l$ v# e"It's mine." hands.

! `  d( N9 Q3 p* ^"It's concern." along. sister.
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"Lydia, tone." chest.

"It's mine," insisted, door.
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% E+ s" e9 a; c8 D8 Y# x& q) ^3 zLydia's hammering. wrong? sister, a for. it. trouble. a bed. a day. rug. couldn't a a opener. board, a up. down. morning. didn't door. hidden. much.
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# m1 |  y" b& G* s6 z* * * uncomfortable dinner. Lydia, hostile, a book. room.

"What wrong, Eleanor? Speak," daughter. plainly, her.

& X/ \. d' A9 @) A5 @"It concern, mother," said, contact. uncharacteristic brushoff, beloved.
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"Please, Eleanor, us," implored. a breath. Lydia. suspicions, weren't mother, Clara.
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"I time." voice. closed. now. Eleanor's forget.

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" p) B4 ~' O5 L. G; D! ?0 N: l3 w3 R& @"You tremble, love," observed.
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- Q6 _" F% k7 ]  ?9 wCeleste's tightened.

"I not." a laugh. "Then I with." smiled.
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/ ~$ [* U8 |6 `& W* q9 \$ \5 b/ B+ D"You friends, mademoiselle," said.
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. _6 W, t/ S; ^+ t8 ]' R"An answer," replied, amused, "how refreshing."

"You I naïve," retorted. softly. "My dear, naïve something."
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"And I naïve about?" Marquis, seduction.
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"Power," answered.

: p) _& [$ o1 e. |% I9 l. R( O"I well. it. it. A them." head. "There a household." her.
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"You me?"

. R, N+ ~$ K1 Q1 l9 l4 `& S"I neither."

"You independence?"

"It surrender, a trust." difference. face.
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"Tell me, a General?"

"No."

5 N' W7 {) ?  ]* g- i( `"Or a doctor?"

"No."

0 B% e3 M6 c# A# x" `4 m"You weakness, mademoiselle," softly. "There one's another.' gaze, fear, moment. a dignity, desires. twice, a time. cheeks. indecent. Indeed, words. deeply. humiliation. choice, offered. further, weary, Eleanor, mother, sleep, place, forgotten.

* * * a breakfast. Refuge. alone, life. room, bed, wear, floorboard.
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) Z2 P4 \8 _0 r8 {& L/ n"Have forgotten?" daughter. forgotten. confusion.

- o8 e' Z& {# m4 o0 _$ I$ \"We morning. ball. Honestly, I don't what's you," frustration.

"Of course, I'm sorry," said. hadn't so.

9 j. t7 m7 H4 {- i"You recently. Montreval." left, didn't. couldn't shore.

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"Lydia, dear," entered. "How you, I circumstances." deeply.

"Lady Montreval, I Haversham's ball. I I part."

"Nonsense," replied. "Though disappearance eyebrows, a ball. unnecessarily." forward, hand.
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"Thank understanding," said, face.
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"Lydia, Mr. conservatory. Mrs. roses, I year." departed, Fairleigh's expression.
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"You candidly," observed. a breath.

"I do."

"Continue."
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. |/ }; y  L/ T5 `  g7 t% S; {/ _& a"You indiscretion?" Fairleigh's a ball.

: x. M& J; w6 E6 p"I suspect. It's a mother's instinct, maiden." replying.
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"You imply."

"I do," answered, "which I room."
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* v, H/ [0 J6 u' e2 ~: x"I walk. I women. occurred, I reputations."
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. _) t5 @' [/ n; K! E0 q% Y"You investigate?"
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"I confidence. more. gossip." next.
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"Unless otherwise, innocence."

"Of course."

' G. Y2 d; E  S. M! }  ]. |"Sometimes harmless. welcomed."
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"Understood." spoke, ton. Fairleigh. a dangerous.
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* * * not. Instead, Montreval's audience, hallway, servants, Lydia's room. sister's room, edge. anxiety. a book. Lydia's board. floor. Désir English.
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; o0 }" }1 I/ I8 C* u7 d5 \4 mEleanor's pages, Celeste's Paris, Marquis, him. core. Sodomy... incest... flagellation. couldn't filth. a ruin. unthinkable.

She'd a enough. suspicion. discovery? mother? Lydia. nothing? a she'd read. Eleanor's desires.

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Lydia's Montreval's a woman. reservation. mother, however, ever, her. mistaken. sister. wickedness. seated, usual, Eleanor, Lydia, intentions.

"You distracted, Lydia. thoroughly?" straight. a worshipped. odds.

"I'm well, you. I a Montreval. It's a I'm tired." a Eleanor. didn't either. forward. Fairleigh.

"You've late. isn't you?" sister's gaze. "Nothing a night's won't cure." silence. moment, leave.

"I I early," announced, "so you'll me." bedroom's boards.

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6 f1 {1 C. H  d% _! L2 _) L"You pleasure, haven't it," maiden. "Let Comtesse." over, chaise, pantaloons. garments, exposed. watched, her, not, regions... covers, shaking. a revulsion. felt, there, a experienced, dark, virulent. pleasure, desire. inside. resisting, clenching... throbbing... hand... aside... pleasure. indescribable.
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A shudder.
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A teeth. fists, bedsheets. contentment, satisfying, a slumber, arms. Blackthorne, her, broad, soul... him, alone.
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