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God, she was being greedy But he didn’t seem to mind She promised her half-dazed ht now, she wanted to indulge herself, to let hie her

He pressed a kiss to the heated valley between her breasts and nuzzled his way up her neck "We should go up to bed"

She kissed him, unable to resist the tereed and pushed her backward

When her back touched a soft surface, she realized he’d used his foot to drag the other cushion closer She raised her ar the perfect bed His hand stroked her froing kiss She had never felt more taken, more possessed But for the first time, the possession held tenderness And she knew that as happening in thisindefinably precious

Under her roa palms, his muscles moved in a slow sy shoulders, heavy ers into him and was fairly sure he barely noticed "Clay," she ainst hisat her lower lip "I’m not soft like you"

She caressed hiratified to hear his breath catch But he didn’t give her long to enjoy that, dipping his head and suckling at her neck in a way that she kneas going to leave aup one of his hands and stroke her breasts with heavy boldness No flirtatious passes for Clay He petted and teased with the confidence of a man who knehat he wanted, what his wo a kiss to the skin he’d sucked

And she knew she’d been marked "Ditto I don’t share" She had always been unreasonably possessive of hiirl, she’d sulked for days

He raised his head "Neither do I" Their eyes met in a collision of pure fire

This, she realized, was it Either she kept protecting herself or she upheld her vow to love him without fear Put that way, it wasn’t a choice at all So she gathered up her courage and did soly hard for a wootten the lesson She ripped open her heart and took the final step across that glass bridge "It was you Always Only ever you" At that instant, she felt so wrench and re-fored shape, then the odd feeling passed and she found herself face-to-face with the predator that lived inside Clay

His intent expression hadn’t changed, but his eyes were those of the leopard as as rowled and she felt the roughness of it scrape over her skin in a caress that was at once frightening and ly erotic

Blood flowed to low, heated places "I’ain would she fear him "Sometimes, I’m afraid of what I feel for you" - and the cost the emotional connection would demand from him if this dah"

She bit hi of teeth on one shoulder It was over before she’d stopped to think about it When he growled this tiainst her breasts Then he bit her The second his teeth closed over the peak of her breast, she felt her thighs attempt to clench If he hadn’t been between theht in an effort to quench the liquid fire threatening to burn her up

Teasing her by rocking his erection against her, he bit her again Mercy! When he did it to her other breast, she decided she’d have to provoke hied "Too much" Too much pleasure, too ainst her breast and the sensationever tauter, as if her breasts were swelling to please this sexy changeling who seemed determined to enslave her His hair was heavy silk under her hand, his jaw rough with stubble She wanted to stroke every inch of his around hie that while she ht not control it, or him - nor would she want to - it was co her needy flesh, he kissed his way freckle by freckle down to the curved plane of her abdomen When he looked up, the erotic beauty of hiood Pretty freckles" He flicked out his tongue as if tasting one "M me crazy" He was so honest in his blunt ht you said you had no patience"

"I don’t You’re just hot for h the cri, veryher lips, she blew hi up her body to give her a slow, sensual kiss that ainst the damp tips of her breasts siainst hi them both His hands slipped under her botto him to listen He used his teeth on her lower lip She used hers on his It was a very sensual fight but he won - because she wanted to be skin to skin, too All over Unlocking her legs from his back, she lifted up her bottom and let him undo and peel off her jeans He threw thees of her panties

"Pink?" A row of kisses along the waistband

She sed at the ie of those wicked male lips so close to the most private,her legs, he licked along the inner-thigh edges Her hands gripped at the cushion as her body bucked with a twisting pleasure she’d never before felt Then he licked the other side And that pleasure roared through her like a fever But through it all, she are of hi her