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‘You are so stubborn,’ Angel groaned in frustration, nipping up her slender throat to find her swollen lips again, teasing and tasting and letting his tongue plunge and tith hers until she was beyond thought and arguain He donned protection

He eased into her slowly, very slowly, and impatience assailed her She didn’t want or need to be treated like fine china that ht shatter or like that rare unicorn he had ain, the pulse at the heart of her racing with anticipation She tilted under hi up her hips, and the invitation was too ed deep A brief burning sting of pain asp

‘That’s your own fault,’ Angel growled in exasperation ‘If you would just lie still’

‘I’m not a blow-up doll’

‘I was trying not to hurt you’

‘I’ued, every skin cell on red alert as she felt her body slowly stretch to enclose his, tiny little shian tothat the best was yet to come ‘Don’t stop’

And he didn’t He sank deep into her with a shuddering groan of pleasure and the pace picked up, jolting her aves of glorious exciteain,at the limitless capacity of her body to feel more and yet more But this time the cli up with impatience and a need she had never expressed before Her heart raced, her pulses pounded and that sweet, seductive throb of delight grew and grew inside her until she could contain it no longer Every barrier dropped as her body exploded into an ecstatic climax that left her limp and stunned

Angel released her froht but made a move to pull her under his arm and retain a hold on her Quick as a flash Merry evaded hi bent on i around for the afternity, she told herself staunchly, dictated an immediate departure She slid out of the other side of the bed, bending down to scoop up her discarded clothes

‘I asked you to stay,’ Angel reminded her

‘I’ home,’ she said as he vaulted out of bed and headed into what she presu impatience and annoyance in perceptible waves

She would have liked a shower but she was deterrimace, she pulled her clothes back on and was out in the hall cra a taxi when Angel reappeared, bronzed and still unashamedly naked in the bedroom doorway ‘I don’t want you to leave’

‘I’ve already ordered a taxi’ Merry tilted her chin, her long hair streareed and it’s better like this’

‘I asked for one night—’

‘You can’t have everything your way,’ Merry declared flatly ‘I enjoyed s come to an end’

Angel swore in Greek ‘You drive me insane’

‘What’s your proble to your forecast, we’re done and dusted now,’ she pointed out helplessly

Yet for all her proud nonchalance in front of hi panic Back at her apartment she had to wait until the shoas free She felt shell-shocked by what she had done Her body ached but her brain ached al madness that had overtaken her She tried to exael’s unemotional point of view, but that didn’t work for her when her own e about inside her as et about it now, she reedly He had much more experience in such encounters than she had, had to knohat he was talking about The curiosity and that unnatural hunger had been satisfied and noould all die a natural death and beco memory that she’d never ever share with anyone, she told herself with determination

Only in the days that followed Merry slowly cael Valtinos had got it badly wrong Feed a cold, starve a fever was a saying she had grown up with, and before very long had passed she knew that it had been a serious el’s stunning dark eyes locked on her like nets, heard it in the terseness of his instructions to her and she felt the pull of him inside herself as if he had attached a secret chain to her Excitement crashed over her when he was close by, her te Slowly, painfully, she came to appreciate that she was infatuated with hiirl in his vicinity The suspicion that she was hter than she had ever dreamt she could be appalled her