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He kissed her throat, his hands stroking her body, fingertips dipping and brushing in every curve till she arched against hiht his belt buckle, flipping it open, and his hands shimmered over her hair, her shoulders, as she pulled his T-shirt from his jeans with seductive care She peeled it off over his head, herthe flat coin before she brought her mouth to his

Then he realized she was shaking

Turning her toward the cheval mirror in the corner, he stood behind her She wouldn't look at herself, and he kissed the back of her neck and loosened the sash

"I'd rather we did this in the dark," she said truthfully

"I want to see you"

"Chase," sheherher breasts She sagged back against hi his hands as he caressed her nipples

He broke the kiss, looking in thehis lass His hands were a dark and rugged contrast against her skin, bronze to pale cream as they moved over her breasts, her belly

Tessa saw the look in his eyes, in his expression Fascination Desire

"You are so beautiful," he whispered in her ear, watching his hands as theytheers brushed the warel"

She was bare to his eyes and Chase drank his fill of her plush body, trim but for the roundness of life in her Her skin was flawless, golden and creahs, and stroked her lightly, loving her eager thrusts for his touch She daers slid deeper Her breath went ragged Hispath down the delicate curve of her spine Gripping her hips, he closed his eyes and tasted the softness of her buttocks, the backs of her thighs, worshipping her skin, the taste of her She closed her hands over his and held on Then he turned her to face hih cheek brushed softly against her belly, the curving side Slowly he straightened, kissing herhis head to take her taut nipple between his lips

She inhaled sharply, gripping his shoulders as he laved and suckled, then tasted itsforher to his lap Draping her over his ar her body soften, curl toward him He knew she was scared, knew she was unco her like this, but Chase realized he loved her Loved the woman she ith or without their child inside her He wanted to lide from her hip to the arch of her dainty foot, slow and ht Then he tasted its lushness again

His touch pierced her skin like blunt daggers, the sensation hot and heavy, and Tessa thought she'd melt into the mattress when he took her nipple deeper into the hot suck of his ue, and she felt it burn with a heat that seared around her waist and drove an ache deep between her thighs She wanted him more

"You'll tell me if I hurt you," he said huskily And she could only nod

"Again Chase, tasteher as he laid her gently on the bed, his body nestled tightly to her side He draped her thigh over his, spreading her His hand skih to the dark cleft between and he rested his hand there He rubbed He felt her need quicken, in her kiss, in her fingers digging into his shoulders, and when Chase pushed two fingers inside her, she gasped softly, her hips rising to the ht between her teeth And Chase had never seen anything so elegant as Tessa's passion

She felt like spun glass in his arht bead of her sex She clung to hi her fro within her body

"Show it to el Show me" She opened her eyes and cupped his face in her palers pushed and withdrew until he watched the explosion unfold in her eyes, h her body

"Oh, Chase," she choked almost desperately, stunned as the waves of pleasure slid over her like the pour of liquid silver, again and again He stroked deeply and she convulsed, her breath a fractured rush of pleasure against his lips He held her tightly, slowing his movements till the last of her desire was spent

Her tongue moistened her lips and she looked into his eyes