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‘Don’t fight it, Lex Just remind yourself how much you’ve missed this’

‘But we’re getting a divorce’

His ansas to pick her up and carry her over to one of the velvet sofas before lowering her down onto it The soft pile contrasted with the hardness of the body which was pressing down on top of her and she was unable to hold back her excitelasses and put them carefully on the floor

He turned back to give her his full attention, pushing her hair back from her face so that he could look at her properly, his blue eyes a blur as they burned into her She felt exposed Naked A warh her as he bent his dark head to kiss her again but this tied with purpose

She let her hands splay over the hard ht of him; the scent and the taste of hiht of his erection as it pushed against her thighs

It had been a long time since he had made love to her and, oh, she could tell Her body felt as if it were on fire and her senses seeotten could feel so good She could feel his hand rucking up her dress and the coolness of the air as it hit her bare knees An insistent heat began to coil through her as he parted her thighs and the pooling of heat at her fe her squirm She wanted him to take off her panties She wanted hi her hands over his silk-covered torso, she heard hi her nails over his dia material of his shirt and she could feel his helplessness, too

‘Lex,’ he groaned

She thrilled at the husky way he said her naainst her palm so that she could crush his lips even closer She could feel the silent, slow entry of his tongue and noas her turn to groan She felt all her strength rip his powerful shoulders, encountering the structured lines of his jacket as she did so And suddenly her eyes fluttered open and she pictured what they must look like She saw herself as if she’d just floated up to the ceiling and were looking down on the scene below A ed wife on the sofa as if she were a cheap date Starting to have sex with her right there and then, without any prea

And she was just lying back and letting him

She pushed hied in ht, because he didn’t object His breathing was laboured and his smoky eyes were narrowed as he stared at her

‘What’s the matter?’

Lexi struggled to sit up, fury heating her blood as she grabbed her glasses and put them on She wondered, if she hadn’t stopped him, whether he would have siht there on the sofa

‘You really need to ask that?’ she breathed

‘I’ him snap the words out

‘It’s not a riddle and you’re not stupid Think about it, Xenon You bringthat this is an already coht require a little consideration on your part But consideration has never been part of your vocabulary, has it? Even after I expressly told you that this wasn’t going to be anything other than a e—you leap on me with all the finesse of a sixteen-year-old boy’

He watched as she got up froaze following her as she went to stand in front of the French s The light fros and the strands of hair which had worked themselves free from her plaited hair He felt the painful twist of lust deep inside hilared at her ‘Maybe that’s because you ain—with all the corresponding doubts and insecurities’

‘Doubts and insecurities?’ She gave a short laugh ‘I don’t think so You were born knowing how to handle a woman’

‘Except perhaps for you,’ he said ‘You werecareer’

Exasperated, she shook her head ‘You see? Even when you’reit into some kind of macho boast!’

‘I aed his broad shoulders ‘I aht that’s what you liked Don’t you re me that my mastery turned you on?’