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‘Exactly what I plan to do’

He took her hand and led thene and the twin pal in the breeze like benevolent sentries In through the lounge, where her clutch lay like a red silk flag against one dark leather couch, and where its reflection, his red tie, lay across another Her skirt swished brazenly with every step she took

Through an open doorway she gli with fruit—the only sign of life in a glearaphs faced another bare of anything other than la on the prow of a yacht, her hair blowing in the sea breeze, and felt a momentary jab of discomfort, a whiff of disloyalty that made her footsteps falter

Heher steady with his gaze He cupped her jaw and placed a hot, de kiss on her mouth She felt the brand of his desire

He walked to a door and opened it into a bedroos and various pieces of furniture, lit only by the spill of laht from either side of a wide, low bed

She stepped inside This was it This here she was going to be seduced

Her heart thundered in her chest as she looked around, and there in the mirror Matteo stretched out an arm towards her

‘I’ve been ader along her collarbone ‘Wondering what you looked like under all this’

His finger traced the line of her bodice froe She shivered uncontrollably and closed her eyes as he traced the line down the middle of her chest to where the skirt of the dress flared out Then he placed a hand on either side of her waist and pulled her towards him for a kiss

Kissthe sensation of his tongue expertly licking and probing, stoking the fire higher How could she have denied herself this pleasureso much pleasure?

Her own greedy fingers pressed against his chest She could feel the spring of hair under her pal the sensation of his fir him deliver

Fu, she undid his shirt all the way down to the waist, until the twin panels of fabric opened to reveal a golden chest dusted with hair that narrowed down into a single dark line, sed up by the waistband of his trousers She pulled the shirt froe hard ridge at his groin, and she bit back a groan of anticipation

She had seen countless male bodies—men at the peak of physical fitness, slick with sweat and shaved clean of hair But none of them had proclaimed their masculinity like Matteo as she pushed his shirt fronificent naked torso