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He kept her hand pressed snug, dragging her palan throbbed and strained beneath her touch "It’s for you, Susanna For your pleasure"

"Good heavens All of it?"

He chuckled low and kissed her neck "Yes, all of it It’s rasp, he let his own hand drop to the heht, thin fabric and eased it up to her thigh, ski the sensitive hollow of her knee Then his hand delved between her legs, spreading her thighs apart His fingers found her warently exploring and teasing her apart, a low round his erection against her hand--"belongs here" His finger slid inside her, giving her an exquisite sense of fullness and bliss "It’s as si, as he understood it An unco of needs and desires They were ed inside hers

He pu a fraction deeper with every stroke Though she’d just experienced a wrenching cli pace Soon she was arching her hips toher hand over his arousal in ti her jaide and delving deep with his tongue She struggled to reciprocate, tasting and teasing hiainst her lips

He slid his finger fro cleft, and she whimpered at the sudden loss Her complaint iftly addressed, however, when he hs She had to spread her legs wide to accoainst his hardness He rocked against her in just the right place, and pure, bright pleasure shi hands His gaze was dark and hungry as a wolf’s "Do you want me, Susanna?"

She couldn’t dissemble Her body made an answer of its own, as her hips tilted and arched, rubbing sinuously against his arousal "Yes"

He didn’t move "Yes?"

Another man would have taken her at her first answer, if he’d bothered to ask at all But he wanted to be absolutely certain she wanted this, too If she’d harbored any lingering reluctance, his thoughtful concern dissolved it

Yes, she wanted this Not just this She wanted him Perhaps she would neverlove with a man But she wanted to explore passion and pleasure, and she wanted it to be with Bram In all her five-and-twenty years, noanother five-and-twenty to experience this wonderful yearning again

"Yes," she said again

Still, he hesitated "We shouldn’t Not tonight Your first time really should be in a bed What’s irl like you"

"I never planned to marry at all And as for beds" She looked up at thebranches sheltering theh Acouldn’t exist "Everyone has beds I’ll take this So long as--" She cleared her throat "You will be careful, won’t you? At the end I shouldn’t want to get with child"

"I can be careful But you should know, there’s always a chance"

"I know I’ to take the risk, if you are"

"To be with you?" He kissed her lips "I’d risk a firing squad"

Her heart turned over in her chest "Then yes To all of it"

This time, he took her at her word With one hand he i her abdo

"So beautiful"

The words rushed over her skin on a hot, ragged breath, drawing her nipple to a tight pucker He bent his head and suckled her, drawing the aroused peak deep into his ue around the sensitive tip As he sucked and licked, the rough fringe of his whiskers scraped over her tender skin Her every nerve attenuated, drawing tense and thin with the ed, between swipes of his tongue "I want to feel your hands on me"

Susanna had never been happier to take his direction She reached down, yanking his shirt free of his waistband and sliding both pal the sled a hand between their bodies, searching for the closures of his trousers With an eager tilt of his hips, he aided her search She undid the buttons on one side of the flap, working her fingers inside

Oh My

Her senses were overwhelroan of encourageently, asher paled velvet over heated iron So ss inside ht

"I can’t wait," he said, abandoning her breast "I can’t wait any longer"

She released her grip on hi the fabric under her arer between their bodies He thrust against her bared sex, teasing up and down her cleft The intense pleasure left her breathless, ritted teeth, changing his angle and tilting her hips "If you don’t want this, Susanna"

The feral snarl of his lips gave her a heartbeat’s pause He was right, this was the most vital, undeniable force in nature Her whole body craved release, possession The power of the ed "I want you"

Seventeen

"Then I’ into her heat, just an inch Rapture chased along the surface of his skin "Take me Takethrusts, puttinghimself to be patient as her body learned to accouarded, he could read her every emotion He saw anxiety, trepidation Understandable, as this was her first ti her fear