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"Dark velvet eyes that tempt a man to become lost in their depths," he continued his verbal seduction, his voice snored her interruption, his sle of her upturned face

"A noble little nose," he murmured "Did you know you scrunch it up when you’re concentrating on your work?"

"I do not"

His fingers drifted down to trace her nose before outlining her tre lips

"A mouth that is as ripe and delicious as cherries"

Her lips instinctively parted at his searing touch "Niko"

"And this skin" The warth of her neck to trace the loose neckline of her sweatshirt "As smooth as the most expensive silk"

"I’rowled in response "Ivory silk It tempts a man to discover if you’re the saaze, he lowered his hand to the he And that if she agreed there would be no turning back

"Yes," she whispered

Obviously a man of action, Niko didn’t hesitate to pull the sweatshirt up and off her body It happened so fast that Angela didn’t have tiht of Niko’s harshly appreciative expression, she forgot to worry that she was too skinny, or too pale, or too whatever else her insecurities could iine

"Yes," he rasped as his hands reached to dispense with her lacy bra "Ivory tipped with rosebuds An irresistible coers cupped the s the nipples to tiny points of aching pleasure She sucked in a startled gasp, her back arching as if to beg for h curse, he lowered his head and licked the tip of her breast

Angela jerked in astonishe into the short strands of his hair

"DearLord"

His own hands slid down the curve of her waist, tugging her against his rigid muscles at the saroaned, as he caught the tip between his teeth It felt so good Blissfully, wondrously good

"I want you," he whispered, kissing a path to her other breast to tor skill

"I want you too," she husked

And she did

What had his word been?

Desperately Yes, that was it

She wanted him desperately

This was chemistry at its most basic for impatient kisses up the line of her collarbone until he buried his face in the curve of her neck

"But--"

"No," she snapped

He pulled back with a frown "No?"

Da herself with the fear that this man who filled her every fantasy could never desire her

Now that she was in his are of paradise, she didn’t want it snatched away

Just once she wanted to say the hell with logic and coive aze skimmed down to her nipples that re to "

"A warning? Oh" She wrinkled her nose "Yeah, I’m not stupid I know the routine This is just sex Ite his cave clothes and take her against the fridge, he would have smiled at her baffled expression

Hell, he didn’t bla at him like he was out of his mind

Until he’d encountered this woman he would have bet his left nut he would never utter those words

"What did you say?"