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He picked her up and carried her into the living rooht on the scene Her head spun a little and her feet left the earth The next thing she knew, she was lying flat on her back on the rug in front of the hearth

He followed her down onto the floor, sprawling across her, anchoring her beneath hi her into the thick wool She pushed her hands up under his pullover until she touched bare skin

He undid the long row of buttons that closed her white linen blouse and then he unfastened the next set, the ones that sealed her long, white skirt

"This is like opening a birthday present," he said when he reached her waist "I've got this nearly overpowering urge to just rip into it"

"I know just how you feel," she said, struggling to free hihed a little and sat up briefly beside her Crossing his ararle fluid moveht of his firelit shoulders "Much, ued by the ripple of skin over ers through the crisp hair that covered his chest He sucked in his breath and groaned

He went back to work, unfastening buttons one by one until he reached the hem of her skirt

"Best present I've had in a long, long time" He put one hand on her bare skin just above the band of her white lace panties He flexed his fingers gently "Definitely worth the wait"

The touch of his big, warh her She stirred, feeling sinuous and incredibly sexy beneath his touch

He leaned over her to take her e to rest just beneath her brsts By the ti her bra

He asped and sank her nails into the contoured ht flowed around theuely aware of the winds raging outside the cottage, but here in this intiical place there was another reality, a world where every ht neonders and new discoveries

When Nick found the tight, throbbing nub that was the epicenter of the shtly with fingers he had daers just inside and probed gently

Without warning, the gathering energy that had created such a delicious tension exploded She barely had ti into a bottomless pool

When she eventually surfaced, she was breathless and joyous with the pure pleasure of it all

Nick looked behtly "You okay?"

"Oh, yes Yes, indeed, I aertips slowly down his chest and belly until she could cup his heavy erection "Never better Yourself?"

He grinned slowly, a sexy, anticipatory sh her

"Going to be okay real soon," he proht his face was tight and hard with the effort he was exerting to uide hier than she had anticipated In spite of the unbearable sense of urgency and readiness, she was startled by the tight, full feeling

"Nick"

He paused rabbed his head in both hands, spearing her fingers into his hair, and lifted herself against hi her coether he levered himself up on his elbows and looked down at her His expression was one of desire and passion and other forces too strange and wondrous for her to label ords But she knew the power of those driving, eley She knew theh her, too

Nick began to htened her legs around his waist, he made a hoarse, husky sound and drove himself into her in a series of fierce, swift thrusts that seemed beyond his control