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In front ofrab and pull her backside directly against ripped her hips,every inch of space in the rooainstintoroaned into her, and then--when I began to harden,solely on the gorgeous creature in front of me--I had to decide whether to pull her into one of the many tiny alcoves or let her re to sih the set, barely stopping to greet the crowd or take a sip of the beers precariously perched on their a I’d seen or heard, and I felt as if I was getting a gliy and adventure, spontaneously nabbing tickets to see her favorite band in an unfamiliar city I adthatrhyth all around me would be profound

At nearly six foot seven, I’d grown accusto through doorways, to standing on the outside of circles to not feel as if I was crowding anyone away But on the subway ho with the motion of the train, I could tell Ruby wantedthe bar overhead so she could lean intoain, and again, while her hands slipped beneath my open coat and under my shirt so she could press her cold hands to the flat of ertips teased at the hair on my navel, at the buckle of er just below the waist ofto me I could see it in the , sliding in fro her lips out into a flirty smirk and I listened to her chatter on about the show, the crowd, various songs,with each scratch of her nails down my stomach, with every press of her soft body to my hips I weathered the torture in silence, eyes never leaving her face, absorbing the treasure offered with each giddy word With every jolt of the subway, every sway along the tracks, Iit would be until I could devour her

We rose froh, in fact, that I could press her against the wall of a building just down from our hotel, bend to inhale the honeyed rose of her skin and hiss, "What are you doing to me?"

"Hmm?" She stretched, catlike in my arms

"Where is the order in my brain? Where is my sense that I need to tread carefully with you?"

"You don’t"

"You’reour titurn over in my chest The soft slide of her ue so earnestly, her quiet whi it betweenso well I won’t make love to you until it is love for you," she said

No, not said--reassured She was telling me that she knew she’d stolen s with care

Somehow this prohtenedher down the street

Two seconds inside the hotel room and I’d jerked her coat off, thrown mine across the room, and had her flat on her back just inside the door Her trainers landed soed down her legs and tossed aside

I’d never known a hunger like this;Ruby stared up atin the , her eyes ith thrill Her expression of anticipation and the rigid ache of hts Somewhere far in the back of my mind I knew I needed to te so hard I could hear it inbothered to slon

"What are you--" she began before I shoved my own jeans to my knees and fell heavily over her,her for the first tiainst where I could enter her through the thin material, and I felt how slick she was beneath the satin Groaning, I thrust ain, hurried and desperate, shoving her top and her bra up over her breasts to grip her, pluine hoould be--hoill be--her legs aroundup and around, up and around, ripped ht from her, perched on my elbows but kissed her madly, too frenzied; ue, her lips, her neck She didn’t seem to mind my recklessness--it seerabbing hands e

I was close so soon--too soon--but I could take my time with her after I needed relief fro her, feeling her underelectrically down and building until, with a deep rock ofinto the dark room