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I love you, he thought, looking at Win I love every part of you, every thought and word… the entire cos you are I want you with ten different kinds of need at once I love all the seasons of you, the way you are now, the thought of how much more beautiful you’ll be in the decades to co the answer to every question my heart could ask

And it seeht

Kev wasn’t certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her Only that there was no ive her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces

He stared at her without blinking, half-fearing that the slightest ht precipitate actions he wouldn’t be able to control Heher frooing to have her soon

Drawn by his gaze, Win glanced at him Whatever she saw in his face caused her to blink and color Her fingers fluttered to her throat as if to soothe her own racing pulse That made it worse, his desperate need to hold her He wanted to taste the blush on her skin, absorb the heat with his lips and tongue His , and he stared intently at her, willing her to raceful ers ain, this ti, and he wanted to seize her hand and bring it to his mouth "I will leave you to rest, dear Mr Rohan," she said unsteadily

"Thank you," Cam mumbled from the bed "Little sister… thank you for…"

As he hesitated, Win said with a quick little grin, "I understand Sleep well"

The grin faded as she risked a glance at Kev See inspired by a healthy sense of self-preservation, she left the room hastily

Before another second had passed, Kev was at her heels

"Where are they going in such a hurry?" Beatrix asked froammon," Miss Marks said hastily "I’ammon"

"So did I," Leo coammon in bed," Beatrix said innocently, and snickered

It immediately became clear that it would not be an arbitration of words, but of so far more pri to look back, though she had to be aware that he was following closely The carpeted floor absorbed the sound of their footsteps, one set hurried, the other predatory

Still without looking at hi around the handle "My terms," she said softly "As I told the would happen between them now unless Win had her way ith, while at the saht have ards, but not all He shouldered the door open, nudged her into the room, and closed them both inside He turned the key in the lock

Before she could take another breath, he had secured her head in his hands and he was kissing her, opening her mouth with his The taste of her infla the kiss becoue into his ainst his, or at least as much as her heavy skirts would allow

"Don’t lie to ruffly

"I won’t I promise" Her blue eyes were brilliant with love

He wanted to touch the soft flesh beneath the layers of cloth and lace He began to pull at the back of her gown, unfastening the ornate buttons, tearing off the resistant ones, tugging his way down until the wholethe billoith his feet, he stood with her in the deep pink folds of the ruined gown as if they were at the heart of so the ribbon at the neckline of her chemise and the tapes of her drawers Shefrom the cru The slis tied with plain garters It was unbearably erotic, the contrast of luxurious wararters, he knelt in the soft heaps of pink muslin She crooked one of her knees to help hi hihs, and when she ripped her hps and kept her still He nuzzled gently into the pale curls, into the roseate fragrance and softness, using his tongue to separate her Open her Her ," she whispered "I’ll fall"

Kev ignored her, searching deeper He lapped and sucked and ate her, his hunger surging at the first taste of feue deeply, and he felt the response resonating through her body Breathing into the plush folds, he licked one side of her, then the other, then straight between to the place where her pleasure centered Entranced, he stroked her over and over, until her hands were gripped in his hair and her hps urged forward in tight undulations

He took his aze distant, as if she didn’t quite see hi fro her naed body against his clothed one Lowering his mouth to the tender crook of her neck and shoulder, he kissed her skin and touched his tongue to it At the sas of his trousers and undid theainst the wall, one of his ar her back froht, her spine tensing as he eased her weight down and she realized what heher mouth draw into a soft O of surprise as she was is clamped around his waist, and she held on to hi deck of a stor his hps do the work The band of his trousers slipped free of the anchoring clips of his braces, and the garrin,to take his clothes off… but it felt too good, the lust rising until it eclipsed every trace of a drive, feeling herself being filled, ransacked He paused to kiss her hungrily, while he reached doith gentle fingers and teased the swollen lips apart When the rhythrazed the little peak with each fire Her eyes closed as if in sleep, her inti on hi her further to the edge Her legs went tight around his waist She stiffened and cried out against his mouth, and he sealed the kiss to keep her quiet But littleAs Kev buried hih hi into helpless throbs

Gasping, Kev lowered her legs to the floor They stood, their bodieskisses and sighs Win’s hands slipped beneath his shirt and entle benediction He withdrew fro body

Soed theainst hiht saline perfurance

"Me voliv tu," he whispered, and brushed her s lips with his "When a Ro of the word is never chaste It expresses desire Lust"

That pleased Win "Me voliv tu," she whispered back "Kev…"

"Yes, love?"

"How does one marry the Romany way?"

"Join hands in front of witnesses, and adje, too And every other way I can think of" He took off her garters and unrolled her stockings one by one, and wiggled her toes individually until she uided his head to her breasts, arching upward invitingly He obliged her, taking a pink tip into his ue until it contracted into a tender-hard bud

"I don’t knohat to do now," Win said, her voice languid