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“But you have had lovers?”

“I have had sex partners Even when the sahts, the relationship would never be so I would describe as lovers Or even a relationship really We scratched a mutual itch”

“That sounds so cold” And crude, but she was getting used to his earthy way of discussing certain things

He had not been raised in the refined and often stifling atmosphere she had been subjected to

“It was I did not realize how cold until I warmed at the fire of your honest passion the first time we kissed”

CHAPTER SIX

WETNESS BURNED BEHINDher eyes, her eht not believe in love, but that sounded like she was special to him She said so

“Of course you are special I want to marry you You are my lover and you will one day be my wife”

She didn’t have the strength to deny hiht then—wasn’t even sure she wanted to, so she avoided answering altogether by kissing hi his hardness against her in a blatant demand and clai that demand, no hope to do so even if she’d wanted to

He swept her into his ar her down on the bed carefully as if she were both fragile and precious She looked up at hiether to bite back the words of love that wanted to tremble from her lips

He stood and began to undress “Tonight, I want to take it very slow”

Her body was already suffused with heat and longing and they’d barely done anything “I don’t think I’ll survive slow”

“You will h waruarantee it”

“You’re very confident”

“According to you, I have reason to be You like ood at it, you wonder how I learned such skill” Oh, he sounded arrogant, but pleased, too, and she couldn’t help s

“Yes, well…”

He sreement “There you see?”

But she was beyond answering He was peeling off his shirt and revealing bronze skin covered with silky black hair over sculptedarrow of hair that hinted at ly masculine

He undid the button on his trousers and she sucked in air It didn’t help her feeling of light-headedness, though

The man was simply too delicious for words