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Bewildered, she parted her lips He dropped it in and automatically she sed 'But you-'

'We don't need it to happen this soon Success ht conclude other pleasures that are for the edly, 'far more important'

An odd little twinge of pain coloured her relief at his change of heart He could not have told her nancy would be a sexual turn-off, or possibly the final act of the whole charade he had involved her in

'Aren't you pleased?' he probed

'Ecstatic… but you want everything I've got to give in return,' she whispered tightly, understanding that, for this present forbearance on his part, there would be a price

A questing hand closed over one small firm breast and her eyes slid shut in an involuntary reflex, every tinybeneath her skin in a hot rush of anticipation

'And that's incredibly generous, isn't it?' he said thickly 'Considering that I could take it without asking'

His other hand skih and her senses leapt wildly Her own hands dug like talons into the embroidered bedspread beneath her, so fierce was the teless

Laughing softly, he divided the robe, bent his dark head over her quivering stooing to drive you out of your mind,' he promised

Shedding the twin of her own robe, he rearranged her on the bed as if she were a doll She collided with the rapacious hunger glittering in the all- on the swell of her breasts and the sleek curve of her hips And she burned all over, self-conscious in one sense but strangely proud in another

She was breathing very fast as she looked up at hi fro his muscular chest and beyond to his hard flat sto herself into stillness and silence

He closed his mouth round a rosy nipple and teased her with his teeth A whimper of stifled sound escaped her She felt the erotic pull deep in the pit of her sto his tongue between her soft lips and plundering the response she could not withhold She was shaking, alternately hot and cold with the force of her own arousal It had happened so fast, she couldn't control it

His slim hands entle and always, always one agonising step behind where she needed them to be She couldn't stay still, she couldn't stay quiet He was slowly and inexorably working down her quivering length, leaving no part of her untouched His teeth nipped playfully at a sensitive spot on her thigh and her back arched, the heat building to a cruel pitch as his fingers toyed with the da herback his na for breath

'Let go,' he deo' And then he did what she had never allowed hi so inti, it drove her right off the edge Parting her locked thighs, he buried his ainst that most secret place and tasted her, and after that there was nothing she could do but feel A primitive avalanche of wild sensation took over and wave upon wave of explosive pleasure shuddered through her in an earth shattering climax of passion that took all else before it

'You're mine, absolutely, unequivocally mine'

Not quite sure she was even conscious, she felt her eyes cling to hi her with triumph Hard hands curved to her hips as he pulled her to him and there wasn't a resistant bone in her body He drove into her hard and deep until she didn't knohere she began and he ended Her heartbeat slae rhythainst his and she was suddenly, incredibly at fever pitch again, her fingernails raking the smooth da pleasure that freed her from the chains of the mortal world

Afterwards, it was a long tiht And she didn't want him to lorious, and at the back of her woozy mind she knew that sensation wasn't likely to last He rolled free and lay back for a few brief olden sprawl of satiation on the other side of the bed Incautiously she leant her chin on her elbow and looked at hihly deceptive His superb bone structure was starkly apparent beneath his dark skin, gri line of his , he leapt off the bed, snatched up his robe and shrugged into it She couldn't believe that he was just going to walk out after what they had just shared Indeed, she let hiet as far as the door before she was provoked into speech 'I'm sorry, sir Did I disappoint you?'

Lightning-fast, he spun back, the black brilliance of his gaze stabbing into her 'That isn't a'

Her eyes wide to hold back the scorchingup, Ashley retorted, 'It wasn't supposed to be But I shouldn't have to tell a male of your experience that there's a certain form for these occasions-'