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There was one moment before he realised, a split-second as he worked out as happening but by then it was too late He saw the screwing up of her eyes, the way her little white teeth bit down on her bottom lip, and then he knew By the mountains and the rivers!

‘Sienna!’ The as torn from his lips even while her body became taut, like a bow stretched around hih to the very heart of her ‘Sienna!’ he said again, but this time it was on a note of wonder

‘Oh,’ she breathed, the word a little feather which drifted away as the pain beca and indescribable wave of pleasure and he began to move inside her

He had planned his own release with little concern for hers—not like the first time—but noas different Noas a virtuoso performance Never had he taken so much care with a woman as he thrust all the way inside her—but then, never had the weight of such responsibility lain so heavy on his shoulders

He found hientleness whichplace seeauzy lens

‘Ah, Sienna’ And her nah

He was slow for as long as he needed to be, and then a little faster He held back for as long as he needed to, and then he drove in again, harder and then harder still He teased her when she breathlessly began to beg forthe inexorable path, and just when he thought that he could withstand no in to convulse around him

Her cries split the air, her legs splaying and her back arching as her sweat-sheened face fell back, and she was calling his name in wonder and in disbelief And then—oh, sweet, sweet desire—then he let go hiasm which rocked his world on its axis—which took him completely out of his body It was a slow drift back to earth, and he fought it every bit of the way

It had been thesex of his entire life—but that should not have surprised him, not really

After all, he had been waiting for this for a long, long time

CHAPTER EIGHT

THROUGH the soft darkness Sienna beca and loud and steady And then she became aware of another beat and another heart—so close to hers that it almost felt as if it was inside her She felt warht aching deep inside her a glorious physical reminder of what had seemed like a perfect dream

Opening her eyes, she took in the scene with so disbelief It had not been a drea on a carpet in a dim, cool corridor in Hashi down at her I black eyes, but his question gave her some idea