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"Yes, yes That’s the one"

Growling with frustration, she arched against his hand Finally he took pity on her and put that teasingout in exquisite pleasure The second cli with bliss, but she still ached for more She needed him inside her, needed to feel that sense of coh "What do you want, Isabel? Tellbut that I’ll unbind your wrists in time, but I mean to free your passion first"

"I don’t--"

"You do You’re the most passionate wohtened of it Don’t be" He gently caressed her between her legs "God, you are so wet, so ready You’re wet for me Ready for me Don’t deny it Don’t deny me Tell me what you want"

"I want…"

I want you inside me

She just couldn’t say it, not like that Not with hiht, while she lay bound to the bed He had all the power in this situation, and while that had excited her earlier … now she found herself needing to even the balance

"I want you to disrobe," she said If he would not loose her restraints, at least she could force him to remove his clothes They would be equal in nakedness, at least

"Gladly" With a roguish grin, he unbuttoned his waistcoat and cast it aside, before athered his shirt and pulled it over his head Then he sat up to re Bel a splendid view of his bare-chested form She adrace of his on of male beauty was her husband

-- hers

His boots removed, Toby unfastened his trousers and smallclothes and slid theloriously naked and proud He hadn’t a tremor of selfconsciousness in his whole body, and Bel envied that strength and confidence al her Inside her

"And …?" he prompted "Tell me what now"

Come make love to me Join with me

But she couldn’t say it, not yet He still had her at his

"Come kiss me," she whispered

"With pleasure" Cautiously, he stretched his naked body over hers Tenderly, he touched her lips with his Those lips that had so recently tasted every inch of her body, so that it was al herself How curious She did taste of apricots They kissed slowly, and then deeply And then quite urgently

His arousal pulsed against her thigh, and her own body throbbed and ached for hiainst her neck "God, tell me soon, or I swear I shall die I’ve wanted you all day, every ht I’d explode with it Say the words, Isabel Lether face At last Hewith pleasure, but she had him naked and desperate and utterly tied in knots And now, all the poas hers

She hooked one leg over his and ground against hiroaned "Tell me what you want"

"You knohat I want"

"You have to say it," he dehed He lifted his head, and their eyes locked

"No, I don’t," she said, giving him a coy s "You tease," he accused, a grin spreading across his face And then, taking heragainst her mouth as he lifted her hips and--merciful heaven-- finally slid into her

Oh, it felt so perfect So right

Holding steady deep within her, he reached over her head to untie the cravat Once her hands were free, they flew straight to hi, deep strokes, and she explored his body boldly with her fingers, caressing him in places she’d never dared to touch before: the taut swell of his buttock, the downy slope of his thigh She felt free now, free to possess all of hi her ankles behind his back, she reached under them, to touch where their bodies joined--his hard, thick shaft sliding in and out of her body, the soft, vulnerable sac beneath He swore "I can’t--"

She squeezed gently, and he groaned

"I--God, I can’t stop it"

"Don’t try" She raised both hands to his shoulders and clung to hi her hips, he took her hard and fast, driving her back toward the edge of that blissful nothingness

And in that last moment of delicious tension before she cried out in release, Bel thought to herself--if she never returned fro, Bel knew she ht Surely she s

Lambs

Honestly, lareen They evennoises to one another

As if Wynterhall weren’t idyllic enough already--as if Bel hadn’t just spent theas now her very own enchanted castle and made the acquaintance of a benevolent house staff surely taken froes of some fairy story--now Toby had swept her out onto the terrace to see the well-tended gardens

And greet the lambs

Really Even for her, this was a bit ruously innocent, after the torrid night of passion they’d shared She could scarcely look at Toby this

"Are they pets?" she asked, as one of the bleating creatures nosed her skirts "Some sort of pastoral decoration, like park deer?"