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It was the single, sharp, shrill, aniht predator who had co with its life, that woke Es confused her but then she ree bed her body as filled with sharp dread as though the dying creature had passed on its fear to her

‘Marco?' She reached out her hand into the darkness and to the other side of the bed but encountered only emptiness

She had been so tired when they had arrived that she had gone straight to bed in the roo him to explain the situation to the couple who looked after the villa for him She suspected shethe pillow She had assuh, after what he had said to her that he would be joining her in it She hadn't had the energy to argue, even if she had wanted to

The door to the rooms en suite bathroom opened A mixture of relief and sexual tension filled her as she watched Marco walk towards her He always slept naked and there was enough light coh theto reveal the outline of his body Herin the shadow-cloaked detail with such powerfully loving strokes that she trembled

‘So you're awake' she heard him murmur as she lifted her head from the pilloatch his approach

‘Yes' Her response was little more than a terse, exhaled breath, an indication of her iaze fronificent physique

‘But still tired?’ Marco was standing at the side of the bed now leaning doards her

'A little But not too tired’ she whispered daringly She had known all along, of course, that this would be the outcoain How could it not be when you had a man as sexually irresistible as Marco and a woman as desperately in love as she was?

They looked at one another through the se with the accelerated sound of their breathing The darkness had beco in on the shared sensual memories over their minds

The sudden fiercely intense surge of his own desire caught Marco off guard, as it threatened his self-control He knew that he had missed their sex but he hadn't been prepared for this raw aching hunger that was now consu him

Eel in a way that erly for the faht-warm, intimate scent that was hers and hers alone, and which he was only recognising nothe bedclothes, and his chest muscles

contracted under the pressure of the pounding thud of his heartbeat His pulse had started to race and he recognised that the ache of need for her which had begun here in this bed the first night he had spent in it without her had turned feral and taken away his control

‘Emily’

The way he said her na beating up through her body were i in to her love, pressing her lips to his bare shoulder, closing her eyes with delight as she breathed hi his collar-bone, feeling the responsive clench of his roan of pleasure When he arched his neck, she kissed her way along it caressing the swell of his Adanition of his arousal And his desire fed her own intoxicating her e her to make their intimacy a sloeetly erotic dance spiced with sudden moments of breathless intensity

It felt good to keep their need on a tight knife-edge, refusing to let hiiving herself over co out her need as he finally covered her and led triue, to the sweet place that lay beyond it

Severalaway fro and waiting for his heartbeat to steady, willing himself not to think about what his body had just told him about the intensity of his need for Emily

If the way in which Marco was rejecting her in the after her then it served her right for co here Emily told herself She must take her pain and hold onto it, use it to re here with Marco ood to see him in his true role, in his true habitat, because it would show her surely that the man she loved simply did not exist any more, and once she knew that her unwanted love would die How could it not do so?