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His hands slipped gently over her body, just softly on the outer swell of her breasts, he would make his way there later, he prohs They twitched under his touch and she grabbed his shirt, pulling him closer

‘I’ll help you back in e’re done,’ heher so that it slid to the ground, grateful having no maid meant she’d dispensed with stays

‘When we’re done,’ she confir his shirt from his trousers ‘I just don’t quite knoill be done I can barely fit in that cot on my own’

‘How lioat?’ He nuzzled Sam’s scent just below and behind her ear—silky soft and ware blossory for her

‘Lih the skin of her throat Her hands were pushing into his hair, sifting it like she would the soft sand of the delta as he tasted her, licking her earlobe and catching it with his teeth as a silvery shudder quivered through her He smiled and kissed the soft skin there, aware that it was absurd to be pleased he was already beginning to find her weak spots, like the one right there, just beside her hip bone where the skin stretched towards her navel He let his fingers linger and tease that indentation through the soft lawn ches around him

‘Yes, limber That bed presents a problem We shall have to be creative’

‘Oh Tell me what to do and I shall try’

He brushed his mouth over hers, a little surprised to feel his own mouth curved in a smile She sounded both dreamy and determined Typical Sam

‘All you ht Star I shall do the rest’

Chapter Seven

The carizzled chin and twisted teeth less than an inch from Gabriel’s face

‘If you had asked for help, boy, ouldn’t be here And they call my kind stubborn!’

—Captives of the Hidden City,

Desert Boy Book Four

Sae yawned, his body stretching against hers, his ar her ainst the wall of the narrow cot It felt so good to be held To surface from a fuzzy cloud of pleasure into comfort