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Christopher’s hands paused He closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, trying to calm the part of him that flared white hot at her words In his mind, he relived the afternoon--the way she had loved hihtened look she’d had when she came for him The way she shivered when he touched her and melted when he kissed her
When they were in bed, they were stripped and bared to each other beyond
"I have delicacies to feed you," he ry scar on her shoulder, "and flowers to woo you I did not intend to start the evening in bed, but I find I cannot wait"
His hands slipped into the gaping back of her gown and reached around to cup her breasts through her cheed on theertips in exactly the way she liked
Maria’s head fel back against his shoulder with a low rowled, his lips to her ear "Tonight I intend to suck on them until you come with ht you gripped me?" He rolled his hips "My cock is hard with thesad and plaintive in the way she said his na a heavy air of melancholy
Impatient to reach the heart of the ohich sent tiny, cloth-covered buttons flying out to either side
"You will leaveto wear," she said, her breathlessness betraying her secret desire to be taken He knew this, of course, and suspected that Quinn’s relatively easy acquiescence to her ending of their sexual relationship was the other man’s downfalPerhaps if the Irishedly, she would not be here in Christopher’s house now
His iht and he tore at her tapes and ties with evensound, and then Maria turned and was in his arht her up, taking theher feet from the floor
Her tiny hands cupped his face; her soft, sweet lips worked frantical y beneath his Desperation, he could taste it and felt it in his own blood
He nearly ran to the bed, so quick was his stride He tossed her down and tore at his breeches
"Spread your legs"
Wariness passed over her features, and Christopher knehy He was not affording her the chance to hide
Stepping free of his lone gar her knees and opening her wide She struggled, but he gave her no quarter, pinning her hips so he could take her cunt with hishis hair "Not that way…"
Fra the ebony curls with his hands, Christopher parted her, exposing the soft pink skin and the hood that shielded her clitoris With the pointed tip of his tongue, he rubbed it, teased it, coaxed it to coed, he wrapped his lips around the surrounding area and sucked gently Mariahiroup and be less vulnerable She did not say the last, of course, but he knew it
He also knew the moment she opened her eyes and saw the asped and stiffened
"Appreciate the view?" he purred before returning to his ministrations
Maria stared up at the lewd reflection of Christopher’s golden head between her legs and was devastated by what she saw Glassy eyed and flushed frorim, determined woman she had seen in the mirror at home The woman she saas lost to the pleasures bestowed by a er Aher to the gal ows in his place
She could forgive that, knowing she had come to him with a nefarious purpose She understood how many individuals relied on his support for their livelihood and that they were likely hishimself He would not bother for his own sake
She knew this because she understood hiht he was, the man who once had a brother he loved as much as she loved Aht not have changed froht be a man anted her dead
"Maria"
She squeezed her eyes shut and felt him move He pressed a kiss to her clitoris, then moved up to lie beside her
"You are far fro love to you has chil ed your desire" Cupping her hip, he rolled her into him so that the heat and hardness of his erection pressed into her bel y "Is it too inti both the soft affection in his deep blue eyes and the intensity of his perusal
"Is it ‘ love’?" she queried in a small voice "Or is this sex between two people who fit well together?"
"You tel me"
They stared at one another, and she felt the questions between them like another body in the bed "I wish I knew"
"Let us find out together, then" Lifting her thigh, hethrough the folds of her sex "Take me inside you," he rasped "Let h sex?
"Tel ainst you," she whispered
"Who wishes to know?" he rejoined