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War her breathless ‘Thatyou’ve ever said to me’

‘I don’t do roel told her uneasily, a frown line building between his fine ebony brows as he stared down at her in frustration ‘For e and instantaneous…’

And if she was honest, Merry reflected ruefully, it had been the same for her that first day, a powerful instant physical reaction that had only deepened with repeated exposure

Lean brown hands dropped to the sash at her waist and jerked it loose so that her breath hitched in her throat She could feel her breasts swelling inside her bra, her nipples prickling into feverish pro at her fe, awake on every level even before he picked her up against hirily under his

‘Thee el intoned rawly ‘And that’s saying so But then I’ve never had to be patient before’

‘You don’t have any patience,’ she whispered through reddened lips ‘You want everything yesterday’

‘Once I got you back I didn’t want to be too dee your , I felt like I was in a straitjacket around you, forced to be on my best behaviour,’ he complained

Merry laughed, riveted to appreciate that she had read his uncharacteristic restraint correctly She knew hiht victoriously, and his ad her away and losing her Losing them, she corrected with a sudden inner flinch of disain He had practised patience with Elyssa’s h their hter, which put a very different slant on his attitude

‘Unhappily for el ad the buttons loose on her top, parting the edges, pushing thear, no fan of deferred gratification either…’

Her ribcage tensed as she snatched in a sustaining breath, ridiculously self-conscious standing there in her sih they had been intimate twice before, on the first occasion they had been in semi-darkness and on the second they had both been so frantic that she hadn’t had the time or space to feel reel released the catch on her bra and her breasts tumbled free, plump and swollen and heavy