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"Why won’t you move?" she cried

"Because I ao without you"

"I ah with her distress, her wo in a way that was nearly painful

With effortless strength, he scooped her up and lifted to his knees, ith of his cock A across the salty, whisker-roughened expanse of his throat The rooed their positions, everyher over him until she bit him in retaliation for her sexual frustration

Montoya cursed and pushed her away frohly

He sat on the edge of the bed, her legs astride his, his erection buried deep So deep Canting his arave her full access to use hily erotic, his abdoht with muscle, his furred chest damp with sweat

And theed her to recklessness

"I--"

"Now!" he barked,her jump

Her shoulders went back and her chin lifted in answer to his challenge She thought this must be difficult for him for reasons she had not considered before He made love with the expertise of aof his face ht have been a recent event Perhaps she was the first woman to welcoht added poignancy to an already remarkable event

Amelia decided in that moment that she would love him well, with all that she had, better than any other woman ever could She would reach for the turmoil she sensed inside hi him with her body that it was his heart that lured her to hi her hands on his shoulders for balance, she pushed onto her knees and lifted, sliding her sex upward along the length of him When she lowered, the feel of the broad head of his cock stroking over that quivering spot inside her asp and shake violently

"That’s it," he praised in a dark whisper, watching her through thick black lashes "See hoell I fit you? I washer lower lip, she repeated theslowly as she found the way of it Her thumb brushed across a scar thatsince turned silver She caressed it as she undulated, feeling the circular shape surrounded by ragged edges In the back of her mind the injury bothered her, prodded at her

Then he spoke, and everything else scattered from her mind

"Sweet Amelia You are mine"

A her head to fit herat the feel of her swollen nipples brushing across the light dusting of coarse hair on his chest

Clai him as he claimed her

Montoya thrust one hand into her tresses, holding her close as hebeneath her in breathtaking thrusts, stealing her wits

Stealing her heart

As she gained confidence, shehard fro down between her bouncing breasts

"I want you this way daily" His words were heavy, slurred with pleasure "I want you to feel ery Starved for me"

Arinding, writhing, pu erection as if she had done this before As if she knehat she was doing

His teeth nipped her throat and she cried out, everything clenching inside her until he cursed fro her to thisbody reclined, his eyes heavy-lidded behind the an sex god Exotically beautiful Endlessly controlled Content to lie back and be pleasured by a wanton whose sole focus was the pursuit of orgasainst his cheek, she whispered, "Fuckherself with how easily the crude word rolled off her tongue

A brutal shudder wracked Montoya’s frame in response

"Makehim still "I want itI want you Wild Deep I need you with me--"

Before she could blink, he had twisted, pinning her to the bed Feet on the floor and fists in the counterpane, he drove powerfully into her, every perfect downstroke wrenching a cry of rapture fro her through the , his buttocks clenching beneath her calves as she lifted to e His body was a study in sexual power Built to fuck a wo tension in her woainst the brutal pleasure And then it broke free in a riot of sensation, burning across her skin, seizing her lungs, spas inside her in endless rapid ripples that worshipped his straining cock

The guttural roar that ripped froht tears to her eyes and a naid, and shebeneath hi the strength and speed of his thrusts until he swelled inside her, groaning through gritted teeth Embedded in her to the deepest point, his body jerked in time to the hot, thick wash of his ejaculations inside her

It was savage and priht supported on his forearled sweat

"I love you," he whispered ardently, his tongue licking the trails of her tears "I love you"

Amelia reached for the ribbons that secured the mask

Chapter 11

It was dark in the roo a shadow ht was difficult, and yet Si

Moving cautiously, he turned his head and found the space in the bed beside hi the deep, even rhyth had woken hi with a wo the disturbance would not be wise

He looked toward theand saw the gleaolden hair Lysette had the drapes parted a scant inch or two and was presently staring out the

"What are you doing?" he whispered, sitting up

Her head ht have turned toward him, but he could not be sure

"I heard noises outside"

"What do you see?"

The curtain closed "Three riders One went inside briefly, I assume to wake the innkeeper Then they continued on"

Shivering, Sirate "I doubt anyone would go to such trouble for directions at this tihts exactly"

"Could you hear them? Were they French?"

There was a brief flare of light as she lit a le taper took over the illulish"

He frowned into the flickering fire "Perhaps I should wake Maria"

"No need They rode forward, not backward Whatever they are looking for, it has yet to be found"

As heat began to radiate outward frorate, Simon stood and faced Lysette She looked tired, and a crease marred the side of her lovely face She wore her cloak over her cheers

He gestured toward the bed "Fine Let’s go back to sleep I ae and could use a bit more time on my back instead of my arse"