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She pushed at his chest It was as hard as a stone wall "Don’t say that"

"You belong with me"

"No"

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Her toes bunched at the sound of his soft laugh Devilish, sensuous, knowing Easing to his side, Gabriel trailed his fingertips across her sto around it with lazy circles At the same time, he kissed and sucked at the tip of her breast until it et and unbearably sensitive

His fingertips tickled their way down to the thatch of silky-coarse curls between her thighs, stroking idly Pandora writhed, her gaze unfocused Oh God, was she really letting hi with sha softly with her, the tip of hisinto the top of the delicate furrow of her sex A brief, ticklish swirl left her gasping Her legs pressed together htly

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"Pandora" His voice was soft and seductive "Open to ertip insinuated between the sensitive folds of her sex and wriggled gently The sensation rippled through her like flickers of white flame "So stubborn," he whispered "Oh, Pandora, don’t te wicked" His forefinger slid along the seahs "Just part theainst her skin "Not even an inch?"

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Astonished, she shrank away fro into wet-rose tenderness, teasing it open Her thighs fell apart in helpless surrender His tongue found htly, delicately, while his handseverywhere, beneath her skin and in the spaces between her heartbeats All her senses focused on the spell he orking, an enchantment of fire wrapped in darkness He rested the flat of his tongue against her, and to her everlasting eainst hiue went flat and still again She couldn’t stop herself froainst her He was playing with her, s As her hands fu wrists and pinned theht, steady flicks that made her insides clench rhyth, relentlessly stoking the feeling higher, higher, until it turned an to flood every part of her She tried to hold it back, but that only , bone-deep shudders that wracked her entire fra up with the pri