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"There’s no need to pretend," she said with a shrug "It’s time to put the past behind us"

He studied her pale face, wishing he could read the emotions that churned just below the composed surface

He didn’t doubt her desire Her slender body was shivering with the sah hi for attention And he didn’t doubt for a et everything but their mutual passion

But he didn’t like the suspicion she was holding a part of herself separate frorimaced Did she think he intended to do another hit and run?

Damn Maybe it was ti on the here and now" He allowed his gaze to run an appreciative glance down the perfect lines of her body, taking pleasure in the sight of her black, fuck- you should know--"

"No," she sharply interrupted "There’s been enough talking"

Luc’s body agreed as she turned to cross the ivory carpet, crawling onto the bed with a sensuous grace He was briefly distracted by the faintly darker patch of skin on her lower back It almost looked like… up

Then his curiosity was forgotten as she laid back, her hair flowing across the ivory pillows

Shit He reached down to undo his pants, releasing his erection that was painfully sensitive With concisewith his silk underwear He kicked the himself of his socks as he prowled toward the bed

Madison watched his approach fro her lips as he perched on thefor?" she asked in husky tones

"I’ to reer down his ared "God knows that I have"

It was the hint of self-derision in her tone that forced hih his body He wanted to claie that should have been terrifying

Instead it just felt…right

"Not until I’ve confessed the truth"

Her eyes narrowed at his soft demand "What truth?"

"I came back," he said with blunt siht have been denial rippling over her face "I don’t knohat you’re talking about"

"The next ers fell away He loved the feel of her light caress "I returned to the trailer"

She shook her head "You don’t have to lie"

"It’s no lie" He leaned down to steal a slow, searching kiss, tasting expensive cha "I knehen I was fleeing fro like a coward Unfortunately I didn’t have the backbone to return and face you like a man Instead I went back to my apartment and drankwhite-hot darts of pleasure straight to his aching cock "It wasn’t until I woke hours later with a pounding head and a nasty taste of sha, lingering kiss Who knew kissing could be so addictive? "When I couldn’t find you, I assumed you must be with your mother It wasn’t until nearly a week later that I finally accepted that you’d left town"

"It doesn’tmore to herself than him But she readily tilted back her head as his mouthht"

"It will be different, Madison," he pro at the base of her throat

She shivered, her breath co about the past"

"I want you to trust led to think Hell, she struggled to breathe as the erotic sensations thundered through her

Why was he doing this?

She didn’t want to know that Luc Angeli had gone back to the trailer Or that hebroken her heart

Tonight was all about revenge A revenge she’d drea years

Of course, her dreaotten that a h her And that his kiss would

She’d been a starry-eyed innocent the first tiiddy excite seduced by a iddy exciteer that was de and inevitable

Tonight was not going at all like she planned, but gri in the back of herthe satin heat of his skin