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“Did you?”

“So right now, I’s”

“Are you? I’ else?”

I know that he expects the answer to be yes, but instead I say, “Well …”

“Oh?” I hear the interest in his voice “Tell ht I should accessorize After all, if I’ the pearl necklace, then surely I should wear thethat he once gaveof pearls in theof locations

“Oh, baby,” he says, and I can’t help the bubble of laughter that bursts free

“Make me squirm,” I say, “and you’ll make me co but the pearls”

I do,a little because the sensation is exquisite, all the more so because the pearls are slick with my own arousal

“Very nice,” he says “But, baby, as ive it up”

“Oh” The disappointment practically floods

“I’ the game, but I cannot deny that I’m ready to have the man and not the fantasy

“I want you on the bed” The command is clear in his voice, and I s open Arh it is hard to stay still when I hear the security syste that he has opened the door

I’ve tucked the folded itinerary under the band of , but I’m otherwise exactly hoanted me to be I hear his footsteps and forceht shifts the mattress, I bite , finally taking the itinerary in his teeth before straddling hty girl,” he says, then lowers hih, then open my eyes as I hook my arms around his neck and pullthe itinerary and setting it aside “I like etaith my husband It’s perfect”

“You’re perfect,” he says “And right now, I’etaways” He starts to kiss his way down uess what I aainst the corner of h to meet his eyes “I love you”

“I know you do,” he says “And that knowledge is what fuels hts Now put your head back, baby, and close your eyes I want to ers and mouth set my body on fire, I stretch my arainst the pleasure that is rising like a storue is stroking the string of pearls thatpanties And though he is not touchingme even more desperate for hi, but I tor easy on lorious

From the floor where it has fallen, ned to Janore it,” I say, then le my best friend after she repeats the text three o ahead and toss s Another distinctive tone, this one assigned to the Stark International security department