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Jaainst his, woke up, cursing silently as he reached out to push her away and put some distance between them

In her sleep Poppy protested about the re her so ainst her own, the man who had made her feel so protected and loved, and she protested both verbally and physically,a husky plea for hi his atte her body back against his and curling her fingers possessively around his wrist

‘Poppy’ Jaely under his breath

He had always prided his had been so—he had had no other option when his father had died or when But there cah, when no man

He took hold of Poppy’s shoulder, shaking her, but her eyes rehtly closed, her body locked in sleep In the ainst silk where it lay against her skin; he reached out and touched it, sled tendrils

Poppy smiled sensuously as she breathed in the familiar scent of his skin Sheblissfully as she absorbed the taste of hiue

James went completely still and then slowly lifted his hand from her hair, but it was too late—had been too late, he suspected, since he had walked into the bedroo on the floor and known that she was sleeping naked

‘Poppy’

As he said her nath to push her away and instead discovered that he was actually gathering her closer—so close that they were lying body to body—and that the hands which should have been holding her away fro the narrow contours of her back, the feminine curve of her waist and hips, the smooth roundness of her buttocks

Her lips were still touching his skin, and against his body he could feel the excited thud of her heartbeat

If she woke up now she would feel the equally aroused pounding of his, and the evenarousal of another part of hiht of self-preservation he would

Ja her face up toher mouth with his

When Poppy woke up she discovered that she was being kissed in theway that she had ever known, her whole body responding to the hungryhers, the ainst hiether as exactly and perfectly as two separate pieces of one complete whole

As she breathed in dizzily, she felt her breasts swell and press against his chest, his bodyto accoing slightly against hers so shockingly erotic that she tre to repeat it, wanting to feel hiainst her—

She wanted to feel all of hily as sheto seek even closer contact with hiainst her, wantingmale heat and hardness of his aroused body, which, for soainst hers when she wanted

Poppy tried to show hi herhiainst hiainst hi sounds of need as she opened her legs and rubbed her body hungrily against his

It was unfair of him to withhold himself from her like this when he kne much she wanted him, how much she needed him, how much she loved him

Poppy’s soft ht when he suddenly responded to the urgent little h between hers andher shiver frohened flesh ainst the silky softness of hers

It ood to him as well, she realized, because now he kissed her rowl of her name as he held her face in his hands and circled her lips with his tongue-tip, using the weight of his body and the pressure of his hands to make her lie completely still while he teased her with the ue and an even more erotic movement of his hips to the point where she couldn’t be still any more and her body physically and very visibly shuddered in uncontrollable response to what he was doing to her

For how ed for hi her like this, loving her like this ? All the feelings and needs she had suppressed surged up inside her in a flood-tide that swept her with it, drowning out everything but her need and her desire

‘No,’ she protested in a husky whisper when his mouth left hers and he lifted her wrist to kiss the delicate, blue-veined skin ‘Not there, not there,’ she urged; her body burned, ached, hurt almost with her need for him

The memory of the couple that she had discovered in the Jacuzziup under her skin as he lifted his mouth from her wrist and asked her thickly, ‘Not there Where, then, Poppy? Where?’