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He stroked again, and again, and again, and with each stroke the surge of excite the skin daency to hier for hiain Their bodiesto ent, pulsing stroke that she was co…

So that crested like a deep ocean wave, crested and then thundered through her, shocking her with its intensity, a surging, powerful breaker that caught her and plunged her into ato roll her over and over, tu, sensation bucking through her, carrying her on and on and on…

She lay in utter exhaustion, supine beneath hi down upon her, the full length of his body His heaviness was total, his liether, still one but both cast away on the furthest shore

She was tired, infinitely tired Slowly, heavily, her ar on to the sheets Her eyes sank shut and she breathed in the scent of his body as sleep took her

CHAPTER NINE

SHE awoke, it seemed, an aeon later As she eased into consciousness her first thoughts were confused Where was she? Where was Benji? Why hadn’t he woken her as he always did? Panicked, she hauled herself upright and blinked, even e bedrooh her, and at the same tis Butmatters asserted themselves

‘Benji!’ she cried out in alar for her call at thatbathroo her, both broke into s out his arda became immediately aware, in a pair of jeans—crossed to the bed, bared torso very clearly on display, and lowered Benji down to her

‘Maria has given hiot him clean and dressed’ His eyes swept down over her ‘You were tired, cara, and I let you sleep’

Magda bent her head, feeling heat stealing into her cheeks, and busied herself e an enthusiastic Benji But as soon as he had reassured himself of his mother’s presence he clida wished she could do the sa she felt she could do

‘Shy, cara?’ he enquired softly, recognising her reaction

He found it enchanting Swiftly, Rafaello’sto recall any si with a becoeneral air of shy confusion There were none

All his previous wo full well their own attractions He couldn’t i to bed with him—or anyone