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Hints of maidenly embarrassment, a sense of aardness flickered across her face "Uh, Drew, isn’t that uncomfortable for you--"
"After twenty years in the Arround" Hehiht cushy coeted against hiritted his teeth to combat the sensation
"Lady, I’ve juear heavier than you"
He stroked from her brsts to clasp her waist Her muscles tensed beneath his hands into a sheet of nerves in contradiction to her encouraging s the slight flare of her hps until she relaxed under his hands
His hold fir The first touch of her ainst hile threatened to send him deeper, faster, when he kneell they needed to take this initial entry slow, careful Excruciating
Hisback than fro her until finally he breached the thin barrier Her wince, followed by instinctive tensing of internal e of pleasure froain he forced himself to wait until she relaxed under his caresses beforehi in her eyes an echo of what he felt certain scrolled across his own
Heat Need Pleasure
He race here, as well Then they found the pace and style unique to the two of theainst each other in the darkened room until perspiration sheened her s his brow And he knew that soon, daer But he wasn’t going solo
Reaching between them, he stroked her where their bodies joined Her head lolled forward, her hair sliding past her shoulders in a black curtain
He increased the pressure, allowed hi rise and fall of her rose tipped brsts reassured hi her
Release
A n words as a fresh wash of goose bumps swept her flushed skin She treain until slowly her lashes slid open and she peered at hih her curtain of hair with astonish back down at hilided from his chest to cradle his face She smiled and she ainst his Hell
His restraints tore, sent hi out of an airplane into the wide-open sky, all thesince he dae But who the hell was he to argue? Instead he let the all-out force whip over hiainst his body in a free fall that just kept pulsing over him because of this woh against her slick folds again, intense, deliberate until she joined hi back until the tips of her hair swished along his other hand bracing her waist, sending another jolt of pleasure shuddering through both of them
Finally she cruh that stirredwith a hefty dose of confusion over how one wo so quickly
He’d set his course long ago when Glenna walked out on hi with her So as his, he had to choose And he’d opted for the Ar more than packed earth rather than the coround under him and soft Yasmine over him, he wondered if maybe a man could have the best of both worlds after all
Monica rested her head against the shoall and watched the blood-tinged water swirl down the drain Any residual hold over her shredded emotions spiraled away, as well
She’d lost patients before Not many But it happened and it was never easy Yet this one tore a new hole in her heart
Rocked her confidence
Her grasp on the threads holding her world together was slipping away faster than the water down the drain when she prided herself on controlling her destiny Her science, scalpel, boots, it was all about being in control of her world on every front
What a joke She controlled nothing She couldn’t save Santuci She and Jack were still a ht be here for Sydney, but she sure as hell wasn’t saving her Jack was taking care of that She hadn’t ever felt this out of control, except when Sydney was captured
Or had she?
Water chilled on her body She’d felt exactly like this the day her mother left The day Cheryl Lynn Hyatt clicked off Saturday irls why she couldn’t be their full-tih Monica hotter than the water scouring her skin Strange, but she hadn’t felt even a fraction of this e when Hunter had issued his final ulti plans for the fifth time
Was she truly unable to commit as Hunter had accused her of? Had she led Hunter around by the nose for four years as Jack said?
She shut off the water, sagged back against the wall and tried to scavenge the energy to step out
The shower door popped open instead Jack filled the void, wearing a flight suit and a face full of worry How had sheher roo towel in hand, he waited, not a norht She was too soul weary for modesty A ridiculous notion around hiive her rooainst him while the fluffy cotton soaked up the water on her skin
Her cheek rested against the steady percussion of his heart "Jack, I can’t have sex with you Not tonight"
Not nohen she was so out of control
Oh, hell Had even sex with Jack been about control for her? She’d controlled the relationship in the early days since he was chasing her And heaven knew Mistress Monica had been in control in the chair
Still, she couldn’t think about sex with Santuci’s blood, his death, still all over her "I wish I could, Jack God knows I’ht and could probably use the release But I justI can’t"
"I know" He walked backward, leading her into the roo her firm with one arm, he reached with the other to pull a sleep shirt out of her suitcase He tugged the jersey over her head, tugged one hand through, and then the other "Sleep"
Her eyes strayed to the floor where they’d slept tangled in each other’s arms before and wasn’t sure she could even open herself that ht now "Is this really such a good idea--"
Jack scooped her up, strode to her cot and set her down He lifted her feet and slid in under the against each other He’d offered her an out, a way she could keep her distance so she didn’t fall apart, while still being there for her
She sagged back into her pillow "Thank you"
For being here For understanding she was so damnedin his ar the arch of her foot "There’s nothing more you could have done"