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THE END. Review to come.

"The only lady I want is you, Morgana. If we are not respectable enough for the ton, they can all go to the devil."

She gasped.

He went on, "My beahviour has been worse than rakish. I nearly destroyed the lives of others, merely to get back at a man who can no longer hurt me. It makes me ashamed."

YES, GOOD. GROVEL AND APOLOGIZE

She does get into a lot of physical fights, though.

Sloane took it all in and suddenly realised how little what his father did mattered to him.

At the gaming table, Sloane often threw in his cards when there was no other way to come out ahead. Now he mentally tossed in his cards. The wager he made with himself, to gain back respectability and throw it in his father's face, no longer mattered. Nothing mattered but Morgana.

He dealt himself a new hand, one he would

Sloane's insides felt as if a dozen sabres had slashed him to ribbons and his head whirled with the suspicion that she wanted him to be the rake, not the gentleman. She craved the excitement, not the man. Sloane had gone through plenty of women like that, who'd made love to him so they could say they'd been seduced by the dark and dangerous Cyprian Sloane.

Come on, you know her better than that.

Was it too late to convince them that they could be ladies? Oh, not ladies of the ton, perhaps, but respectable women who deserved men who loved them and would never walk away?

"You need not play the gentleman with me, Sloane."

Her words wounded him. She saw it in his eyes. For a moment she wished he would strike her. The pain might distract her from the wrenching ache inside her. But she knew he was too much a true gentleman to do so.

Are you SERIOUSLY writing that she wishes he would hit her? SERIOUSLY?

UGH, why is she doing this horrible and stupid thing?!

He wanted more mornings like this, with lovemaking and easy talk between them, casual touching, ordinary life.

"Can it happen again?" she murmured.

She felt his voice rumble in his chest. "Not without making you sore. Sleep now, Morgana."

You fucking liar. You just can't get it up a third time. Eat her out like a gentleman!