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Her face flushed with color, and her fingers grew still

"I have to ad" When she didn’t respond, he thought he’d scared her off, that she hadn’t had that in mind, that she was only curious about Sam and Silva’s situation He had to admit that because she was newly turned, olf relationships ht still be ashe had wanted hi and was so still--barely breathing, her heart still beating at an increased cadence--that he wasn’t sure how to rectify the situation

Before he could speak, she whispered, "Soht hear us"

If he could have, he would have whisked her away to somewhere private, away from Darien, his own fa… hell, as he not to satisfy her cravings?

That’s when he rolled her onto her back and captured her hly that she wouldn’t be able to retted was that they didn’t have time to luxuriate in the feel of each other, to make the experience last

But she see to the curl of his tongue as he seduced hers with his, her fingers sifting through his hair, his hands holding her face in place, his thu her cheeks A softhiues touched, he felt his blood sizzle with heat and desire His arousal pressed against her waist, and she released his hair and swept her hands down his naked back, skin to skin, her touch leaving a fiery wake in their path With his reedy on hers and her response just as fiercely passionate, he felt her nipples beneath her cotton T-shirt bud against his chest, hard, tantalizing, aroused

He meant to move aside her so he could cup a breast and feel the delectable nipple, but she spread her legs, and he found hierous invitation to sex and consu

And for the first time, he truly wanted it With her For all time But she wasn’t ready Not yet Maybe never

Her lithe body arched beneath hi that roan and tried to keep his thoughts intact No consummation Just pleasure, even if it killed hi her, leaning against the mattress so he could pull off her shirt And when he’d freed her of the fabric, he caressed her noollen breasts, which were flushed, the nipples like dark cherries begging for a kiss His tongue teased one, and she closed her eyes and claers dipped into her sweet sheath, hot, wet, erotic, but he quickly silenced another of herinto his buttocks still covered in cotton boxers, her body writhing against his fingers, arching, pleading for resolution His fingers continued to ply her with caresses, stroking, then thrusting inside her, while he watched her shuttered gaze and parted lips, heard her shallow breaths, and felt her fingers clinging to hi in his boxers against her soft naked thigh Bone-hard, wanting, thrusting, he felt burned to the core by white-hot heat as he pressed for deliverance

Carol absorbed every feel of hiers worked h God, she wanted hi, ed for it, pushed him to hurry and finish it before she died an exquisite death fro tide of pleasure, she ca her with a rush of satisfaction, her breath ragged, her body hot and flushed and sweaty--and sweetly satiated

Ryan’s face was dark and flushed, his breath hurried, his eyes s as if he’d run for miles as a wolf She exhilarated in the feel of his touch, his wildness, yet gentleness, too, the fact he wanted to pleasure her and would keep it quiet

He was the hero of her dreams, the fantasy in the novels she so loved to read, the kilted warrior who’d somehow lost his kilt and wore instead a pair of boxers Which wasn’t right A Highlander ithout She slipped her fingers down his backside and underneath his waistband and squeezed his buttocks, soliciting a groan froed at his boxers, and he hurried to slide theid length and felt it juhtened and stroked and smiled as he reached up to kiss her lips But he was already so primed that he couldn’t last With another stroke, she sent hi, and he came She continued to stroke and marvel in the way he reacted, his eyes clouded with lust, his body jerking with co her name in a husky whisper as if she was the one sent to save hiue again stroking hers, his hand caressing her jaw, her throat, her breastbone, her breast

And then he groaned one last time, collapsed beside her on his back, and pulled her into his arether in perfect bliss for what see, satiated, and warm in each other’s embrace

"Have fresh sheets?" he finally whispered, his voice hoarse

She frowned Getting sheets out of the linen closet in the hallway adjoining the other bedroo anyone

"In the hallway," she whispered back