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He was beautiful Her exploring, fascinated gaze moved lower, stopped This, then, hat an arousedbreeches was revealing enough to de woman that there was a difference between theand the saed not to say it aloud There were other words—alar, impossible—she did not say those, either

‘Do I frighten you, Tess?’ His voice was husky with repressed emotion

‘No Another man would, I think Never you Tellthis because I asked you’

He laughed, a gasp of pure araphic enough not to need words ‘Are you sure?’

‘Nothing, except thein front of a oing to be all right He wants ether, like this, for these few days

‘You are set cold’

Chapter Sixteen

Such a prosaic thing, to scramble into bed, to feel the , capable hands pull up the covers

‘I was quite nervous,’ she confided ‘I still am I have no idea what I a with nerves and that was the last thing he wanted, she i female would be even worse

‘Then, spare a thought for the virgin male’ He slid farther down the bed and pulled her with hiainst skin was delicious She itched to explore with her hands, but did not want to be clumsy

‘You know the theory, or at least, you think you do,’ Alex said, his tone re to happen quite yet, not until she had her breath back ‘But the felloho i You hope they are And you’re the rown into your feet yet and your body and its reactions are certainly not under your control So you think you ought to knohat you are doing, you are sure you have it all straightand then you encounter the female body’

The hand that was curved around her ribs began to stroke, the fingers caressing slowly down the side of her breast Alex continued speaking as though unaware of what his hand was doing Tess kept very quiet and still in case he noticed and stopped

‘So soft, so responsive and socoled theht of a breast in your palm’

He shifted,cupped in his hand ‘It is heavier than you iine it will be and so unexpectedly erotic it takes your breath away Then you discover this’ His thumb moved, fretted back and forth across her nipple

Tess gasped as the sensation arrowed down into her belly and her flesh became hard under the pad of his thumb

‘You see?’ Alex shifted again so that he was half over her, his weight on one elbow ‘Not only does it feel good, not only are you rewarded by that little iven her pleasure, too So you try the other breast, only this ti this’ He bent and took her other nipple between his lips, his tongue rubbing against her tight flesh while his fingers continued to tease the other nub ‘And you discover for the first tiood a woman tastes and you wonder if she tastes the saot to kiss her at first because you were so nervous and so cluerness’

He moved until his mouth was a fraction from hers ‘So you taste her mouth’

Tess arched against him as their lips met He squashed her breasts into his chest, squeezed the nipple he was still fondling tight between his fingers, which should have hurt, but strangely only ue was talking now, showing her hoould go about exploring her taste, sweeping over hers, teasing the inside of her cheeks, withdrawing to stroke along her lips He nibbled at the, and he lifted his head

‘You discover that her mouth tastes different from her skin Delicious, uniquely her, but different So you want to tasteto lick across her breasts in great, wet, sweeping strokes of his tongue that le and ue traced her hip bones, her bony hip bones, she thought in despair It tickled ile