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He pulled back, then filled her again, waiting for her to lanced down at her, trying to figure out rong

Her eyes were closed "Claire? Are you all right?"

She opened her eyes "Yes I’m fine"

"Any preferences?"

She shook her head and s He could feel it, but he couldn’t figure out what "it" was He knew she’d claxed before He’d felt it, heard it and seen it She’d flushed all over, had trembled in his eain and she wrapped her arms around him

"This," she breathed "I want this"

It was the encourageain, going faster, yet holding back, hoping to feel her tensing along with hi out her release It wasn’t there, which bothered him, but before he could stop, the pressure built until it was too much and he drove into her for the last tiainst him He played with her hair as she rested her hand on his chest

"That was great," she told him happily "Perfect Thank you"

"You’re welcoed at hiet his mind around

Was it possible Claire wasn’t that experienced?

Given her fame and lifestyle, he would have assumed she had lovers all over the world ButIt had to be circumstances, because she was sexy as hell But how to find out?

"I wanted to an, not sure what to say next

She laughed "Good doesn’t co like that in my life"

As soon as the words ca too relaxed, either

He wanted to believe she meant she’d never claxed before, but hoas that possible? She certainly hadn’t been difficult to push over the edge Women who had trouble with that usually h to come to his house to seduce hi him the road home could be buave him a pained smile "I didn’t mean that exactly"

He looked at her "What did you mean?"

"That I, um, well…" She sed "I don’t have a lot of experience with sex"

He had a cold, hard knot in his gut "Howabout?"

She pulled the sheet up to cover herself "I was a virgin"

She kept talking but he didn’t hear anything but a rushing sound A virgin? A virgin?

Without thinking, he scrambled out of bed and pulled on his jeans This was not happening to hiht

"How?"

She sighed "How did it happen? How is it possible? It just is I don’tto be with someone interested in volume There are a dozen reasons and they don’t really aze to him Her eyes were dark and filled with confusion "Are you mad?"

He didn’t want to hurt her In theory he supposed he should be thrilled in some primal, macho way He was the only sexual partner she’d ever had In truth, what he wanted most was to bolt for freedom

"You’re ed "I like the way you kiss"

As siin to treuessed that tears wouldn’t be too far behind

"Claire" He sat on the bed "It’s okay Seriously You surprised uessed that"

She perked up "Really?"

He nodded "I would have gone slower if I’d known" He wouldn’t have gone at all, but she didn’t need to know that

"You didn’t have to I enjoyed everything Especially…you know"

Her orgasm Was it her first? Did he really want to know?

He didn’t knohat the hell he was thinking, but he knew he had to ht between them He leaned toward her and touched her face

"You okay?" he asked

She nodded and he kissed her She kissed hi rose up inside hiain Not until he got it all figured out

Claire kissed hiet hohter back" She dressed quickly, then sreat"

"Good" She rose on tiptoe and kissed hi"

"Anytione, he paced the length of the house, swearing loudly and wondering when the hell everything had gotten out of control If she was a virgin, there was no way she understood what he’dinvolved She could say she did and even believe it herself, but he was her first lover Wouldn’t that ht there in the hall, he realized that she wasn’t likely to be on any kind of birth control He hadn’t used a condoe, he wanted to put his fist through the wall He stopped hi that broken bones wouldn’t help anyone One problenant were sli to happen between the to skin hiin sister

CLAIRE PRACTICALLY floated into the house She felt sore and squishy and better than she had in years She should have done this sex thing a long ti with Wyatt had been fairly spectacular She doubted if anyone else would measure up

She was also iin He hadn’t seemed that upset at allShe parked behind Nicole’s house and walked into the kitchen Arinned, prepared to tell her what had happened, when Nicole raised her head She looked white with fury

"How could you?" she demanded

Claire was stunned They’d talked about Wyatt Why would she--