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“Sophia,” he murmured, “if you are uncomfortable…”
“No,” she said earnestly, her gaze flying to his “I want to help you”
Ross could not suppress asmile “Your face is red”
The blush remained, but a dimple appeared in her cheek while she uncovered the pot of honey and drizzled the amber liquid onto a square of felt “If I were you, Sir Ross, I would not tease someone who is about to doctor you”
Ross fell obligingly silent as she reached for the buttons on his nightshirt and began to unfasten them With every inch of hair-matted chest that was revealed, the telltale color bloo a little with the buttons Ross becaht to keep the h his pulse had shot into a hard-driven rhythm He could not remember the last time a woman had undressed him It see over him in the silent room, her brow puckered with concentration The scent of honey hung in the air,with Sophia’s fresh, feminine smell
She freed the last carved bone button of his nightshirt and tugged it to the side, exposing his bandaged shoulder Sophia glanced at the expanse of his bare chest, but her face did not reveal her reaction Ross wondered if she preferred a man to be smooth-chested Her lover had been fair-haired and quoted poetry… well, he was as dark as a satyr, and he was dale line of verse He stirred uncoht of the covers concealed his lower half, but even so, his rising erection made a distinct hill that Sophia would easily notice if she happened to glance in the right direction
Ross heard the sudden unsteadiness of her breathing as she began on the bandage, reaching beneath his shoulder to discover the tucked-in end of the cloth All at once it becarant woman, the bed, his own half-naked condition His intellect was vanquished by pries He was filled with the need to take, to claiht Sophia around the waist and tugged her onto the bed with him
She gasped as he half rolled and pinned her beneath him “Oft… Sir Ross, what…” Her hands cas She wanted to push him away, but she did not want to injure his shoulder further “I-I don’t want to hurt you—”
“Then don’t move,” he said huskily, and lowered his head
He caught her lips with his, searching for the deepest taste of her At first Sophia seeling his lips, the kiss turning wet and supple Shehim as if she wanted to consume him
Her volued at the between hers Her felt her fingers on his chest, stroking through the black curls, finding the bed of muscle beneath
That touch, sirily Ross took hisfrom the hollow beneath her ear to the juncture of her neck and shoulder She arched against him, her eyes closed, her face flushed “S-someone will come—”
“No one is coers own “If someone approaches, I’ll hear the floor creak”
While she lay gasping beneath hiown and pulled at the ribbon of her che muslin seams and found incredibly soft skin, the tender curve of her breast He circled his thuile peak until it hardened into a rosy point
Sophia turned her face into his throat, her frantic breaths striking his skin “Ross…”
The sound of his na Ross bent his head over her chest Using the tip of his tongue, he traced a dae where the pink of her nippleskin The little bud turned darker, harder, and Sophia’s entire body stiffened Slowly he licked the crest in luxurious strokes that caused her to lift higher against him
“Please…” Her hands clasped the back of his head, urging him doard “Please, Ross”
“Do you want more?”
“Yes Do it again, oh, yes—”
She whimpered as he bent and took her nipple into his mouth He sucked steadily, nibbled with his teeth, while his fingers toyed with the hardening peak of her other breast Sophia’s fingers tangled in his hair, and she brought his head back to hers She kissed hi existed except the two of the every plane and rise of muscle
“Sophia,” Ross said raggedly “How many lonely years I’ve waited for you”
Her dazed blue eyes stared into his, her pupils dilating as she felt hi up the ht band of the garter holding up her stockings, the frayed edge of her y cushion at the top of her thighs The hair prickled softly against theto the curve of her belly He found the tapes of her drawers, pulled them loose, and eased his hand beneath the layer of fabric He pressed words of reassurance against her skin, his fingertips trailing into the dahs “So beautiful, Sophia, so sweet… how soft you are Open for me Yes”
Carefully he parted the swollen folds and stroked a gentle fingertip between theainst him, and his hand stilled inside her drawers “No, no,” he whispered, “I won’t hurt you Let me”
He kissed her for a long tiers slid back between her legs This time she did not resist He brushed kisses across her parted lips, then ht the delicate lobe in his teeth “I want to make love to you,” he murmured
She hid her face against his neck while his hand continued to play softly “Yes,” she said, and burst into tears
The sudden outbreak of e that she was afraid, that she thought this experience would end as the last one had, he cradled her in his arms and kissed the salty wet curve of her cheek His voice was rough with reht, Sophia”
She held onto hiainst his “I don’t want to wait Do it no”
The blonde curls pushed i hier into the opening of her body and thrust deep, while her saturated flesh clasped his knuckle Sophia sobbed and squirainst his neck in hot, open kisses His finger withdrew froainst hi cry “Easy,” he whispered “Be patient, sweetheart”
“Please,” she whimpered “I need you Please”
The shaft of his ck bobbed heavily as he settled hiainst her lush curls, his heart pounding fiercely as he began to enter her “Put your arms around me,” he said hoarsely
Suddenly he heard a quiet sound… the betraying creak of the hallway floor, indicating that so toward his bedroom
Savagely Ross considered killing whoever it was After years of waiting, he had finally found his woman, his mate, and she was in his bed He was in no mood to be interrupted He rolled onto his side, and vicious pain knifed through his shoulder He welco ache, since it helped to distract hi throb of his loins
Sophia clung to him desperately “Don’t stop, don’t, don’t—”
Ross pulled her close and crushed his lips against her forehead When he could e to speak, his voice was raith frustration “Sophia, so The door is unlocked If you don’t want to be seen with et out of bed”