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"Thank you"
But he didn’t take it
The towel dangled fro, endless moment Slowly, she raised her eyes in silent question
"Are you certain you won’t bathe?" he coaxed, his head resting against the back of the tub lazily
"The water’s still waruiled her The heat fro fro her nose in the air haughtily, indicating that would be the only way she would avail herself of the tub At the single, blunt shake of his head, she snapped, "Then you know hed "Then you leave ers circled her wrist With one hard yank she tu him Water splashed and sloshed over the sides
"Are you mad?" Meredith pushed at his slick chest and attempted to rise out of the tub, but her hands slipped off the slippery copper sides and she fell back in Her derriere nestled snugly against that intiled And his manhood stirred to life
Mortified, she stilled her own to glare at him "Will you please let esture of ht," she snorted indelicately "But you aren’t helping led his head to the side with an air of contelint to his eyes belied such seriousness "No, I’m not I don’t want a bed-mate that stinks"
"I do not stink" She splashed the water in indignation "I bathed this veryAnd no one said you had to share a bed with ht as well bathe" He handed her the bar of soap
She shook her head "I’retted the words the instant they were out A crafty glea, she tried to evade his grasping hands as they dove below the water for the he herself pitching forward, herwith his chest She didn’t care The razing her calves, tickling her thighs, igniting a trail of fire right to the center of her She panted against his neck, clawing at his hands as they locked on the heown He pulled the fabric up, up, up…
Meredith sunk her teeth into his shoulder
"Ouch!" He touched where she bit hileam entered his eyes as he looked up at her with his wolf’s sh, Meredith"
Her face burned at his huskythe surface of the water like a pale lily pad She tried to push the sodden fabric down, acutely aware of her ned limbs curled around him Yet the fabric reht sky outside theiras he grabbed her by the waist and forced her to straddle him She sucked in a breath and her hands fluttered to his broad shoulders His eyes glinted triumphantly as his ing into the soft flesh, anchoring her to hily intimate position That easily… she was lost Her hands ceased pushing Her fingers curled into his flesh in a gesture of welcome and acceptance
He entered her in one slick thrust Meredith cried out, thrilled at the fullness of hi tiny half- to her waist, lifting her up and down as though she weighed nothing at all The rhyth the sides of the tub and splashing onto the floor seemed to come from a distance far away She felt his lips at her throat, her collarbone, through the wet, second skin of her gown She closed her eyes The pri Meredith ceased to exist It was as if she floated outside herself, hovered in the air above the love in a bath with a dangerous, beautifulhis wet, dark head to her breast
She shuddered and saw spots behind her closed lids A strange,cry rose from deep inside her Ripples of white-hot sensation washed over her body He surged inside her one final ti her down deeply on hi her arh his wet hair and hugged him closer to her breast
He scooped her up in his arms and stepped out of the tub Water pelted the floor like tapping rain, and Meredith felt herself set the floor wet"
"I lied Hell with the floor" He set her before hiown up over her head "I just wanted you within reaching distance" The sopping mass hit the floor with a smack
She trembled as he toweled her dry But not from cold She felt shaken by her loss of control
She had surrendered with such ease, so swiftly, without sha of their bodies
He rubbed the towel over her nakedness as if she were a helpless child All the while she avoided his eyes, embarrassed at her total surrender and afraid he could read s, she stared at his dark bent head, loving the si at his nape If he looked up then, he would doubtless see the love emblazoned across her face Just as it was on her soul The prospect terrified her
"I’ll have you warrowl as the towel arrived at her brsts, re her that--thankfully--she was not a child and he was not perfor his task with the stoicish, the friction chafing her niles into hard points He slowed his attention there,sound swelled from her throat He dropped the towel and shoved her back on the bed She reached for hi his face in her hands, she kissed hi his lips as he drove himself inside her He pulled back to stare at her as he thrust a second ti and slow her wildly surging hips, hoping she did not appear the bungling novice in her eagerness
He stilled over her "You’rethrough it