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"Why don’t I send for soested "It will help you to relax" He stroked her cheeks with his thuive you a present"

Pandora’s dark winged brows drew together "A literal present?"

Gabriel responded with a puzzled sive you a present’ aze flicked in the direction of the bedrooh "I wouldn’t presuantly You’ll have to infor, he bent to press his lips to hers

He adored her There was no one like her, and she belonged to hih he knew better than to say that out loud

Any of the aardness Pandoraundressed by aa out into chuckles until she de over your ain "It wasn’t a h Pandora wanted to point out thatlike hyenas while re she said would only prolong his a her only in her cheed beneath the covers "Gabriel?" she asked, pulling the bedclothes up to her neck "Instead of chaentlemen?"

Her husband came to the bedside and bent to kiss her "If you like port,for a servant, Pandora reare of the mattress and propped an extra pillow behind her

In a few e of the bed Taking one of her hands, he placed a rectangular leather case on her pal shy "There was no need for that"

"It’s custo day"

After unlatching the tiny gold clasp, Pandora opened the case and beheld a double-stranded pearl necklace on a bed of red velvet Her eyes widened, and she lifted one of the strands, gently rolling the lustrous ivory pearls between her fingers "I never i so fine Thank you"

"Do they please you, sweet?"

"Oh, so very old clasp, glittering with dia parts of swirling, deeply cut leaves "Acanthus scrolls," she said with a crooked grin "Like the ones in the settee at the Chaworth ball"

"I have a fondness for those acanthus scrolls" His gaze caressed her as she put on the necklace The double strands were so long that there was no need to unfasten the clasp "They kept you in place just long enough forthe cool, sensuous weight of the pearls as they slid against her neck and chest "I think you were the one as caught, my lord"

Gabriel reached out to touch the curve of her bare shoulder with his fingertips, and followed the pearl strands over her breast "Your captive for life, my lady"

Pandora leaned forward to kiss hi hers deliciously Her eyes closed and her lips parted, and she was conscious of nothing in the world except the tantalizing stroke of his htheaded fro as if she were inhaling hot mist She didn’t realize the sheets and blankets had fallen to her waist until she felt his hand at her breast His thuhtly rolled a strand of pearls across the sensitive peak, back and forth A quiver ran through her, and the pounding of her heart strengthened until she could feel it in her cheeks, throat, breasts, and wrists

He kissed her slowly, his tongue sinking deeper, deeper, until she moaned at the pleasure of it She tried to squir but the need to be closer to him In the next moment he had her stretched out on theher naked one The , his aroused flesh jutting against her stohs As she writhed upward into the sti and fluttering inside

Gabriel breathed as if he were in tor darkly as his hands roa and softthe way it curves hereand hereGod, I want you so muchI need more hands to feel you with"

If she’d had the breath, she would have told hi to feel his skin, she tugged at his clothes He h the process was co her for ar over the side of the bed, until his naked body was revealed, flushed and golden, his torso sroin

After risking a glance at the startling sight of his erection, Pandora’s stoainst his shoulder Once, on one of their rali in a shallow creek, while their mother, a tenant farmer’s wife, watched over them The boys had been naked and hairless, and their private parts had been so innocently small as to be hardly noticeable