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'Let go ofsnapped inside her Deter hold, she ild, ar Vito lifted her off her feet with frightening strength, shook her once indoll, and brought her down again in a si

'If you want to behave like a wild animal,' Vito intoned in even addition, 'I will be e'

Shocked and winded by the olden eyes The collision left her breathless The final token struggle, she conceded dully, was over Not surprisingly, she had lost She had never won -willed and stubborn, Vito was doubly so With a knife at his throat, Vito would disdain retreat His temperament was as fiery as her own but his was controlled by the cool of intellect, not by passion And in any confrontation he would always triue of that streak of cruelty that was uniquely his And now it seemed that he had her precisely where he had alanted her… absolutely and irrevocably within his power

Abruptly her thought-train was broken by the awareness that Vito had not yet freed her from his hold Forced into rawly intile of his lean, e out of reach An i the physical contact she was suddenly desperate to avoid

'Leave me alone!' she demanded wildly

Ruthless fingers knotted and twisted into the tangled fall of her hair, tipping her head back

'You're behaving like an-'

'An arousedinexcusable to the level of support offered by her knees 'But I am Very aroused'

'V-Vito… no!' But he had already pressed hiswildly in the hollow of her throat and she ht unexpectedly in a violent storm So that she had this one weak spot where Vito was concerned When he touched her… oh, God, when he touched her! The tip of his tongue delved provocatively between her ain A choked whimper broke low in her throat, sudden raw and delicious tension of a different kind jerking her every ht fro head

Involuntarily her whole body was reaching up and out, reacting to the lure of an anticipation that dug painful claws of need into her flesh Slowly, unbearably slowly, so that her hands clutched pleadingly at his broad shoulders, he brought his mouth down to the now opened invitation of hers

He kissed the same way he made love: with fire and passion and unholy sexual intensity Her every skin cell ca Her skin was cla into aching tightness Liquidity ran in a river of drowning weakness through her li her upright For long ti darkness where only the priainst her, lithely erotic as a jungle cat, letting her feel the thrusting evidence of his ht and folded into the heat and hardness of hier as he swept her off her feet and carried her out of the room

'Take the rest of the day off'

She heard that She heard hi to someone

That penetrated the haze of passion even as she registered that Vito sounded most unlike his usual cool, controlled self Soht her down on so horizontal surface, and her eyes fleide open, trained to his darkly handsome face above hers, taut and flushed and deterer she too well understood

'It's like the first tiain,' Vito swore huskily 'Except this time you still have too many clothes on'

After an arrested pause, Ashley stared up at hirip of passion by a deluge of powerful e beneath her T-shirt, and, before she could quench it, her body betrayed her all-over again A long sobbing sigh escaped her as he shaped her breasts, an expert thued flesh

Attacked simultaneously by the extre sense of sha beyond her own reactions to what had just happened between theivable She wasn't a teenager with overactive hormones any uish, she looked up at hi an answer to the inexplicable

Vito's hands slowly stilled, virtually unnoticed by her 'It hasn't changed, has it, cara? We have an insatiable hunger for each other So so powerful I didn't even believe it existed until I h for me the last time,' he breathed in an unsteady undertone 'But this ti on the cake'

'Don't be disgusting!' Ashley e herself fro Little treh her, nor was she yet in any fit state to deal with the ramifications of her own failure to maintain control of the situation