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With a rowl of approval, Aristandros bent down and lifted her, swinging her up into his arth to carry her into the master bedroom

Her heart was racing so fast she couldn’t catch her breath When he set her down, she kicked off her shoes A soft glide of air brushed her backbone as her dress was unzipped His sensual ue between her parted lips was an indescribable aphrodisiac that sent darts of heat and tingles of exciteh her entire body For an instant she was shattered by the awareness that she wanted him as fiercely as she wanted air to breathe Guilty unease filtered through her, cooling her head for a moment as she tasted the bitter truth that she eaker than she had thought she would be

‘Stop it,’ Aristandros growled, scorching dark-golden eyes raking her troubled face

‘Stop what?’

‘Thinking whatever you’re thinking which is suddenly giving you all the aniyptian mummy’

Discomfited colour bloomed across her cheekbones

‘In fact, don’t think at all,’ Aristandros urged forcefully ‘This is sex You don’t need to carve it up into little intellectual nuggets to be studied below a microscope Be spontaneous…natural’

‘Natural?’ Ella hissed at hi I’ve ever done!’

His blue-shadowed jawline clenched ‘Only because you’re fighting everything I make you feel’

That he recognised her struggle, ineffective though it was, shook Ella, for it had not occurred to her that he ht understand her that well His impatience unconcealed, he dumped her down on the bed ‘This is sex’, he had said with a detachment that ran contrary to her every instinct But if their arrange hiive her She had passed the last deadline: it was crunch time

‘Howher shimmy beneath the sheet until only her shoulders could be seen