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His hands found her hips and he used the leverage to ned to send therabbed at his wrists, pulling his hands free frouided them to the lush fullness of her breasts He cupped and held theertips caught tightly beaded nipples between them and squeezed

“Oh, yes,” she breathed, her hips grinding into him She pressed her breasts more firht now on his arnificent Her hair in disarray around her head, her slender throat arched and her shoulders thrown back His cliritting his teeth and fighting for control, and then he had no need to hold on asound escaped Alexis’s throat and he felt her entire body shudder His shaft was gripped by a silken fist that squeezed and released until he, too, tipped over into heady addictive gratification

Alexis sluainst hiainst his chest, strands of her hair caught on his whiskered jaw She shifted her legs to be ether and soht For now at least

Refusing to question it a er, Raoul allowed himself to drift into a sluht around her waist Toh to face the recriminations that would undoubtedly

Eight

Alexis felt the cool sheets beside her and knew he’d gone, withdrawn froain in every sense of the word She’d hoped they’d stay together the whole night but she was realistic enough to know he had to be dealing with some serious personal demons about now

She opened her eyes, searching for where he’d thrown her nightgown, understanding that it would probably be best if she returned to her room

It was still seht her attention Raoul stood there, naked, fra in the distance, his body caressed by the silver hint of ht She slipped from the bed and came up behind hiainst his back

Still he didn’t ing a statue

“Are you okay?” she asked softly, pressing a kiss between his shoulder blades

She felt his body tense, then his rib cage expand as he drew in a breath

“Yesand no”

“Talk to ht here”