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Only, looking wasn’t enough Touching wasn’t enough, either

She needed to taste him, too

She leaned up and put her mouth over his collarbone It was natural--so perfectly instinctive--to slide her tongue into the hollow just behind the bone

"Mmmm" He tasted clean, but a little spicy, too She needed to taste hiain, needed to memorize not only his scent, but also his taste, so she moved her mouth lower, down over one of his pectoral ue and as his hands threaded through her hair, she put her teeth on hi hiroans she was hearing, because Colbie had never done anything more pleasurable than taste--and tease--Noah

She pushed his shirt off and together they worked to strip him of the rest of his clothes until he onderfully, beautifully naked…and she couldn’t wait to get her hands, her mouth, on every new hard, tanned inch of skin that she’d uncovered His ertips, the lash of her tongue as she explored hireed that rivaled his for her She wasn’t even close to getting enough of hiroan, he pulled her back up his body and took her ain with his She didn’t knohen he’d pulled a condoe, she immediately picked it up, ripped it open and reached for him She felt hi his breath as she rolled it down his thick length

She knew she’d never stop thanking her girlfriends for insisting on that ski trip She wanted to send a truckload of chocolate-chip cookies to the little girl who’d whipped past on her pint-sized skis and sent Colbie falling face-first into the snow--just in ti hands, his warm arms, and his beautiful smile

She’d never felt sexier, never felt more adored, in her whole life than she did as his eyes ran over her, pleasure lighting his gorgeous features as he azed down at her onder in his eyes

"No one has ever looked at me the way you do," she whispered

"I never believed in love at first sight" He reached out to stroke his hand across her cheek "Not until I saw you"

"Noah"

His name was still on her lips when she took hiave her his heart ords, while she gave hers back to hi any words at all, passion took theentleness, now transcended any control either of them had been able to hold on to

Oh, but she loved it, loved the juxtaposition of dirty and sweet, the rough with the gentle, the fast and the breathtakingly slow It hat she was doing with her store, after all, by stocking the finest silks and laces, the headiest perfuht All intended to shatter controland to seduce with irresistible pleasure As their tongues danced together, their bodies were doing a dance of their own, slipping and thrusting and sliding and craving

Loving

He was rough, his kisses were desperate and greedy, but she was all of those things, too There were no rules anyer, woman and man Slick with sweat, breathless with desire, Noah slipped one hand between theher than she’d ever beenbefore he sent her spiraling out over the edge, crying out his nained even this, let alone more

But, oh, there was so much more as his name was on her lips and hers was on his when their ain She could feel every beat of his heart against her chest, the fast pounding that ht a flash of his eyes--dark, beautiful, and so incredibly full of e her hips and she rapping her legs even tighter around hi ht

The nextin and out of sleep for a while as the rare Seattle sun tried to break through the clouds outside Noah’s bedroom , but she hadn’t wanted to wake all the way up and end what had been the ainst her, and she knew the ht was over

One perfect night, when all of her dreah she belonged in Noah’s ared in anyone else’s He’d told her, "We belong together," and he’d said it to her again and again with every kiss, every caress

The truth was that she’d been as afraid to believe it as she was not to

But, oh, how she wanted to believe And to trust that she’d been right to take the biggest risk of her life with hiht Because deep in her heart, Colbie knew that last night had beensex

So when he slid her even closer to hih voice that made every nerve in her body fire with anticipated pleasure, joy exploded inside her, starting at her heart and radiating out from there to fill every cell, every pore, every last corner of her soul