miss my guess.”
She nodded and poured them another, gesturing that they be seated. “Shall I ring for food?”
“Heavens, no, it’s bad luck! Have you forgotten the old superstition about drinking vodka with food?” St. Simon laughed away her offer, taking the second glass. “You remembered this, though.” He made a toasting motion toward her with his glass. “There’s nothing like Polish bison-grass vodka.”
St. Simon’s favorite. Of course she remembered. She remembered all the little things that made up the sum of men: the cigars they smoked, the liquors they drank, the colognes they wore, the tailors they preferred. Such knowledge had kept her alive, made her invaluable to men, made her worth saving, and more than once that knowledge had given her the ultimate key to any man: control, the one weapon she never surrendered. She’d surrender her gun before she’d surrender that. Control made all things possible and it was time to start exercising some of that with St. Simon.
Lucia made a show of putting the gun back in the drawer before she settled into her chair and sipped her vodka, the pale-yellow liquid going down easier with each swallow. She set the bottle on the little table between their chairs. “I remembered.” Did he? This might be his favorite drink, but she had yet to meet anyone who could tolerate Zubrovka like she could.
Lucia smiled at St. Simon, letting her gaze warm him along with the vodka. Good. The subtle signs of interest were there. His pupils had darkened in his tiger eyes; his gaze rested on her lips. The spymaster was not immune. That boded well for her. After all, she had vowed to take a lover of the very next man through her door, and Lucia Booth never went back on her word. She licked her lips over the rim of her glass. She would have Ronan St. Simon, body, soul and secrets before the night was out, and then she would decide if she could trust him.
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