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"Sophie, my sweet, sexy, Sophie" His jaw brushed over her neck as he lowered his head to kiss her breasts, his mouth possessive in a way she’d never known she craved until this rip he had on her rib cage--holding her in place for hisoutline of his erection pressing against her thigh

"Max, please" She pushed at the sleek heat of his shoulders

He lifted his head, his hair hanging messy and touchable across his forehead "Sophie?"

"I want to see"

Shuddering, he let her roll him onto his back His jaas a brutal line, the ripped the bars in the headboard, but he said nothing as she rose beside him, as she ran her hand down the muscled plane of his chest in sensual exploration "Your chest is sold and free of hair "Except here" A thin line of black that began just below his belly button and arrowed inexorably doard

Max hissed out a breath as she followed that path with her finger Looking up at hi a little bit sinful co life deep within her soul "I’m a very quick learner, you know"

He said a word that turned the air blue "I’m not exactly in thean odd exhilaration in her blood, she went to the button of his jeans and found it already undone She could see why He was straining against the zipper Tugging at the metal tab, she went to pull it dohen Max said, "I’ll do that," and reached for it

She caught his hand, lacing her fingers through his "Don’t you trust me?"

A heated look "You touchher lips to their clasped hands, she untangled their fingers Though he gave her a scorching look, he didn’t try to halt her again when she skian to tug at the zipper She was careful, but not hesitant And that was Max’s gift to her With no otherthis open, this vulnerable

Max’s abdo him He was--only just--contained within his briefs Curiosity swept over her in a wave of unashaht about sexual organs in her health lessons, but no one had ever told her that everything would change when it was herin excite up, she saw that he’d closed his eyes, the cords of his neck strained white against the warm tone of his skin And she kneouldn’t stop her, nowith need that ave in to the luscious an to kiss her way down that thin path of hair The texture of it was surprisingly silky rough against his heated flesh, and it was instinct to stroke her hand over his skin as she tasted

"Jesus baby" Strangled words as she lay her cheek on his abdoth of hih the black fabric of his briefs Max’s entire forht to lick her tongue across the very edge of his briefs, to squeeze her hand fir the masculine heat in her hold

"Sophie!"

Max walked out of the bathroom to find Sophia curled up under the sheets There was a look of distinct guilt on her face Joy warmed him up from the inside out, but he kept his expression stern "That’s twice you’ve rushed me" He hadn’t lost control like thatwell, ever "Don’t think I’ed her cheeks as he slipped in under the sheets beside her But no matter the te noticed that she was reacting htest touch "It’ll take a while for you to recover"

A stubborn look that faded into a sigh "You’re right I think I’ve pushed it as far as uess it’s like a person who’s been starving," Max ain, you have to do it in s question that didn’t surprise him now that he’d met the wicked side of her

"If you ask nice"

They lay together for a ti, and then later as they sat side by side in the living rooation But eventually, she had to go to her own apartht with you," she said to him as he walked her over "But it’ll be toohis distance as she unlocked the door and entered "Sophia?"