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She was entrapped by his gaze, her chest swelling as she snatched in a needy breath, her throat tight with tension Luciano Vitale wanted her Her? The very concept turned her inside out because he was drop-dead beautiful in a way she had never dreamt existed Fro eyes and flawless bone structure, he mesmerised her

‘Your pupils are dilated’ Luciano breathed, stroking a strand of golden hair back fro his dark head

‘Are they?’ She was so insanely aware of how er he was, she was frozen with her hips welded against the solid wooden door The lene assailed her nostrils He sood and a ball of heat warmed in her pelvis

‘I scare you, don’t I?’ Luciano laughed again, startling her ‘I don’t want to scare younot any more’

His breath fanned her cheek and she shivered, feeling the press of his long, powerful thighs and the hard, thrusting fullness at his groin against her stomach Her whole body seemed to overheat at that point of contact He was aroused and she had made him that wayshe, Jemima Barber, without cosmetic witchery or fancy clothes Who would ever have believed it? She felt like a real woman for the first time since Steven’s betrayal She didn’t understand what possible appeal she could have for Luciano Vitale, but she didn’tthat instant of exhilaration As he lowered his head a little more and his lips brushed whisper soft across hers, it felt like herfor all her life

Long fingers laced into her hair to hold her steady and the pressure deepened She opened her e with a doue darted into the led with hers and she kissed hierness she couldn’t suppress Her body took flight on new sensation, excite out every objecting voice in the back of her head Every inch of her was suddenly tender and supersensitive, so that firm brush of his hand across her covered breastsnipples prickle in reaction and the trail of his fingers up her thigh as he lifted her skirt set her on fire with tingling i That passionate kiss held her utterly spellbound, her senses excited beyond bearing, and the throb of awakening between her thighs was almost unbearable in its intensity

He stroked a fingertip across the tight triangle of fabric stretched between her legs and her knees turned to water ‘You’re wet,’ he told her thickly

She couldn’t breathe for shock at the tiny treh her while the heat at the heart of her stoked higher She had never in her life before wanted to be touched so badly and she was ashaain with bruising force and all thought fled in the saain while his skilled fingers stru into theto the tiny bud that controlled her entire being

She treled moan renched froly sensitive flesh and suddenly her body was racing out of her control and she was jerking helplessly and gasping mindlessly beneath his s gave way and she would have fallen had he not lifted her and settled her down on the nearest seat

Li, she wrenched her rucked skirt down in a desperate h her and her heart was still racing She couldn’t believe what had just happened She couldn’t believe that she had let hi so intimate, so inappropriate, so wanton

‘You were ready for that,’ Luciano purred, staring down at her with solden eyes ‘You’re a passionate woman’

But Jemima had never been a passionate woman Steven had told her that passion was for sluts and she had always been careful not to seem too keen in that line because that had seeed into a wild fling with Julie she had been shattered at how quickly he had changed his attitude Luciano, however, wanted that passion, thrived on it, she sensed in confusion, forcing herself to look at him, her face hot and flushed, her sated body still soer’s

‘Let’s nottalk about it,’ she mumbled unsteadily

‘Let’s not I prefer to do rather than talk,’ Lucianoso oddly Touching her had been a eed her off to bed and eased the burn of his libido He didn’t want to wait He wasn’t used to waiting but he was suddenly very conscious of who she was His son’s mother It would be most unwise to rock the boat before they reached the security of his Sicilian hoo