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His thunderous expression ance that he could just forbid her fro stuff! “But I heard thatwith him in this moment The promise of their near-naked bodies was heady, her desire for hi But it was the peek inside of Raphael’s head, this insight she was getting into the core of the man that Pia relished the most

His fingers gripped the collared edges of her shirt, “I do not care what you heard or were told, Pia Your diffidence only makes me realize how much you must want to let me do this”

She frowned “Do what, Raphael?”

The ripping of the buttons on her shirt was the answer to her question

She gasped at the coldness of his palms as they cupped her small breasts He pushed her and she bowed back, her trust in him complete His mouth buried between her breasts, Raphael punctuated his kisses ords “What I want from you, ill pleasure me, I will teach you, si?”

“I want to please you,” she whispered softly

His eyes flared hotter “You will” Pursing hisa wet trail “And ill pleasure you, ill send you over the edge, ill discover it together”

“Si,” she said, floating on a cloud of sensation and never wanting to come down

In return for her surrender—or was it reward?—he separated the edges of the shirt and pushed it off her shoulders It hung at her elbows, baring her to his drinking eyes

They darkened impossibly as he stared at her small breasts with their plump nipples painfully distended

No man had ever seen her like that and Pia couldn’t bear the potency of the s she had already given over to Raphael by giving him this intimacy

He pressed a reverent kiss to herher waist, then a trail of hot, wet kisses up and down, from her navel to her pubic bone

The cool sheets were a welcoers with her breasts