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Wanting began low in her belly and spiraled out in all directions Her brsts began to ache Between her legs, she felt that telltale combination of tension and da her to arch against hiainst her belly and the memory of how he’d felt inside her, of what he’d done to her body, made her moan He moved his hands up and under her thin short-sleeved sweater His fingers ar deliberately across her ribs, then cupping her brsts through her bra

Everything about his touch was perfect, she thought as he caressed the curves and brushed his thuht, sensitive nipples She closed her lips around his tongue and sucked

Noas his turn to , he pulled back, then took her hand and led her into the bedroo-sized bed dominated the space The layout was siardens None of which interested her, she thought as he reached for the heed it over her head

Her bra followed, leaving her bare to the waist He stood in front of her, gazing at her breasts, anticipation darkening his eyes

"You’re so beautiful," he whispered, before bending down and taking her left nipple in hisin deeply The tugging dreaves of pleasure from deep inside of her She felt a rush of heat and da of her arousal His day-old beard teased her skin He bit down gently, taking pleasure to the level of exquisite, then sucked again

She had to hang on to hi onto the thick carpet When he moved to her other breast and repeated the process, she found it difficult to breathe

More, she thought, wanting theed at his T-shirt, giving hihtened and pulled it off in one easy, fluid move She stepped out of her sandals As he unfastened her jeans, she ran her hands across his smooth, bare chest Defined muscles felt like stone He was sculptedherto his flat nipples

She licked until he caught her face in his hands, tilted her upwards and kissed her on theoff the last of their clothes When they were nad, he grabbed her around the waist and they tumbled onto the bed

She landed on her back, hi her He lowered hiain This time as he drew her niles in deeply, he put a hand on her belly

Her legs stirred restlessly Her attention was equally divided bethat he was doing with his ers took down, down, down

At last he reached between her legs She parted her thighs for him, then sucked in a breath as he slipped between the folds of skin and found her swollen and damp center

The ht hazily as he began to explore that tight bundle of nerves First he circled, teasingly close, but not actually touching Around and around, htly brushed across it with a single finger She shuddered When he did it again, she kneas going to bring her to the kind of release that shook the world

But instead of settling into a steady rhyths He pressed his ainst her in an intiue, the light abrasion of his stubble all conspired against any self-control she h her at that first second of contact Delicious need burned away shyness or pride She opened her legs wider and arched her hps in a very clear invitation One he accepted

He ran his tongue over every inch of her He dipped into her swollen and ready center, then returned to that single point of exquisite pleasure He rubbed it with the flat of his tongue, teased it with the point Then he closed his lips around the engorged flesh and sucked

Charity felt the tension build It grew until she had no control, no choice but to lose herself in the trerabbed onto the blankets, tossed her head fro

Josh continued to caress her gently, drawing out every drop of bliss until she eak and breathless

When the last wave had ebbed, he shifted so that he was on his knees He opened the nightstand, grabbed a condo her, taking her deeply, thoroughly She hung on for the second half of the ride

Later, when they were both breathing norht with contentment, she traced the outline of his perfect mouth

"You didn’t have to do that," she murmured

"Yeah, I did"

She smiled "You knohat Iher realize that she hadn’t really knohat good sex was supposed to be before now?

"Charity," he said, staring into her eyes "I want you I’et"Do you get every woed "It’s different with you Better"

"I aihed "So do you All that practice has really paid off"

"Knohat to do is the easy part Finding the right person to do it with is a whole lot harder"

Sords that made her chest ache a little

Not hiory of "too , too faular She’d seen what happened when a wouy It had happened to her oodelse

"I haven’t seen you around in the past few days What’s been going on?"

He rolled onto his back, pulling her with hi the feel of his nad body next to hers

"I rode with the high school teao?"

He lightly circled her nipple, then drew her against hiain "Badly I couldn’t do it I pretended there was so with my bike" He swore "Talk about a loser"

He wasn’t that, but telling hiht sadly He needed to believe in hiht about talking to so around and talking aboutto help"

"You don’t actually know that"

"Yeah, I do I tried it after the accident and it didn’t help"

She sighed "You tried it what? One tiuy"

"That makes the sex less aard" He looked at her "Want to stay? We could order in, watch dirty movies on pay-per-view, take a bath I have a spa tub"

Make love, she thought, losing herself in his irl"

He rolled toward her, stopping when he was above her She wrapped her arms around his neck

"Is that a yes?" he asked, the corners of hisup

"That’s a yes and a please and a let’s do it again"