God how she wished it were so.

Temperance might have spent her life striving towards the same level of chastity one might have expected in a Vestal Virgin but she was also a nurse, and quite aware how the body attempted to trick the mind into sin. She would never speak it aloud but she was no stranger to the longings of the body, however this felt entirely different. She did not know this man and that was an entirely new concept.

“Whatever do you mean?” She flustered in reply, unable to stop her tongue from darting out and wetting her lips. A shiver went up her spine as he came a step closer, close enough that the smell of him because stronger and she almost became dizzy.

“What other kind of heat is there?”

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Wonderful set by Lady <3