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Colbie shifted in his arms so that they were face to face, and the hairs on his chest tickled her breasts in the ainst hers She pretended to think about his question, working hard to try to keep her h her tone was clearly light Teasing And inherently seductive

"What if I told you I needed another night before I could decide?"

He grinned down at her, reliefwith the heat in his eyes "Then I’ll work to prove it to you tonight and toave a happy little squeak as he lifted her up out of the bed, carried her into the bathroom, and turned on the shower

"But for now, since I know you have to get back to your new store instead of goofing off in bed withsure you’re perfectly clean" He grinned as he added, "Everywhere"

She laughed as he pulled her under the war seduced, she wanted to be the one to seduce hiht" She wrapped her arms around his neck and lifted her ive you the perfect "

She claimed his mouth with soft kisses that teased as es of her teeth, she nipped at his lower lip, then soothed the sue He threaded his hands into her wet hair and moved them so that she was trapped between the tiled wall and his hard body, but even though the press of his ainst hers shocked her with pleasure, she was intent on loving hih that she could shi each muscle across his neck, his shoulders, his chest, with the saan to drop lower to press kisses to his stolide her hands and roaned her na both froh, he had her pressed up against the shoall again, his hands threaded in her wet hair, hishers

He had protection ready just when they needed it, only this tih to help him with it In one quick s and ar at the curve of her neck, then lower to the upper swell of her breasts, as he found her wet and hot and beyond ready for him to take her

She didn’t feel the hard tile behind her back as he thrust into her, barely heard her own gasps of pleasure over the pounding of her heart in her own ears All she kneas that Noah had herand she had him In a rush of pleasure so sweet, so hot, so sudden that she was stunned by it all over again, Colbie came apart in his arms, with Noah less than a heartbeat behind her

Ten hours later…

She’d just locked the front door of Indulgence after a fantastic second day in business, when Noah wrapped his arms around her and kissed the top of her head "You’ve created soreat here, Colbie"

She turned around in his arms so that he could kiss her mouth, too Of course, when one kiss turned to two and then ten and then a hundred, she let hiu her heartthis tis wrapped around his waist

"Now that is the ence," she murmured a while later as she worked to catch her breath

"No o by, I’ll never stop proving ry, even in the afterht"

"Even if I’ve finally decided?"

"Especially then"

Even though she knew he could see the truth of her feelings reflected back to him in her eyes, and that he had to feel it in the way she responded to his kisses, to his caresses, she wanted to give hiiven to her, multiplied Her faith Her trust

Her heart

"As a little girl, I used to believe in love at first sight" She pressed a kiss over his heart, which beat hard and fast as she declared herself to hiirl does But then, slowly at first, and then faster and faster as I grew older and made bad choices, I lost that belief" She cupped his face in her hands even as she still held his body inside hers "You gave it back to ain, in one perfect night"

And later that night in his bed when he took her even higher than she’d been before and they flew together froot to be afraidbecause she didn’t need to be ever again

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