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His co lobby or from the lobby to the penthouse fifty-seven floors up that houses his private office on one side and his residential apartment on the other

It is only once the doors to the apartment slide open and we have entered the residence that Damien’s equilibriu desperate in his eyes, and he grabs both ends of the scarf that is still draped aroundyou up?"

His words are as rough as the anger that still clings to hiet lost in the passion that is always ready to burst between us He needs to forget what just happened--the paparazzi, his father, Ollie, and even ht

He needs to do so undone

He needs to be in co more than to surrender to him

"Yes," I repeat, my voice raw "Yes, please"

He uses the scarf to shift our position until ainstwith excitement and expectation With one hand, he holds both ends of the scarf while the other hand strokes slowly down my body, over my breast, down ned toMy lips are parted, ainst a solid structure with Daht, I think I would sink to the floor, my body too limp and malleable to holdskirt, his finger dipping under the string ofthrough me, as if a portent of an explosion to come

"Why, Ms Fairchild," he says, "I do believe you want ; he doesn’t need to hear ht

Slowly--so painfully slowly--he starts to peelpanties The tank he tugs gently over my head Even the scarf falls into a pile on the floor I see it there, a lonely bit of pink in a sea of black, and I sigh

"Trouble?"

"I thought you were going to tie , Ms Fairchild?"

"Never with you, Mr Stark"

"Good answer For that, you get a reward" His expression takes on a dangerous edge "Come with me"

I follow him to the bedroom, where he lays a blanket on the floor, then opens one of the leather trunks He pulls out two lengths of rope and sloines theo wide We’veto do?"

But Damien doesn’t answer He just nods at the floor and tells me to lie down I hesitate only a moment, and then comply, my head near the foot of the bed and my body stretched out on the blanket

"Hands above your head," he says