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'I want you unbearably,' he confided 'I want you soreborn'

She moaned, her head thrown back as his hands cupped her breasts in a fierce possession He rolled over and, catching her clenched fingers, drew theainst the button on his waistband 'I want everything the way it was,' he ad love to me'

'No,' she whispered breathlessly, vivid sexual iain inside herher The need to touch hihting the last remnants of her control Theirs had never been a one-sided loving Dimly it occurred to her that in bed they had been true partners, neither one of the more than the other

He claily sweet caress that was a tor pitch of exciteainst the hard bulge of his er that surged up inside her was uncontrolled 'This… this I will have,' he breathed unsteadily, 'though you deny me all else'

He was treolden skin testifying to the extremity of his arousal, and she knew then with a wild flash of satisfaction that he was no more in control than she was But that wasn't whatover the flat male nipple she discovered a his broad chest That wasn't what ers across his unbelievably taut abdoroan beneath her caresses No, what drove her was the all-encoe that in this he was hers, absolutely and completely hers in a way that he would never be any other woman's, and that was in that th of her own desire

With every inhibition released, she beca in her own freedom When the seducer became the seduced, the lines that had once divided the between them but a hout what reht hours

It was as though they had never been apart, but even in the past their loving had never been so passionate or intense When he finally settled between her thighs, she reached up to cup his daht; those lines had faded altogether As lost as she in the grip of that voracious desire, he shuddered and groaned deep in his throat in response and then he entered her wildly, deeply, and proceeded to hness that exceeded her most colourful fantasies

When it was over, she lay with her head against his chest, listening to his heartbeat still racing against her, gloriously at ease and at peace in the i reborn, she thought weakly, and afterwards it was like waking up in paradise, so intense was the release from her own body For the first tierings of alarm entered paradise and she tensed

Vito tightened his hold on her instantly, s and confident hand over her s a restive child His touch felt tender, gentle, and was extraordinarily co She remembered that, in all her life, the only time she had ever felt safe was in his arms

'Maybe at the end of the year Iyour kid brother with another Ferrari'

The illusion of paradise shattered into shards that pierced her flesh in all theto weep and shriek and tear at her hair in a painful ecstasy of despair She couldn't go back She couldn't go forward either The past would always intervene Vito had the forgiving qualities of a Cesare Borgia And he would stand by the last letter of that unholy agreement

CHAPTER NINE

'IF YOU were a feline, you'd purr like akiss to her brow, Vito straightened fro energy, he s yourself and having breakfast with e?'

'No' Her ansasherself still as a statue, too well aware that the moment she attempted to sit up would also be the moment when she was most likely to throw up

He chuckled and strolled across the roo aniood meal 'I'll see you later'

The last time she hadn't been this sick The doctor at the hospital had said that her lack of sickness nancy was unstable The assurance had been so, and at that rate this dreadful nausea she was presently suffering ought to be an indication of the nancy of all time!

Priya appeared with a dry biscuit and a cup of aro flat but Ashley did her best The older wo to see a doctor and Ashley ignored the advice Thisscene had beco violently ill in the bathroo Ashley had turned her into a partner in collusion to conceal her condition from everyone else in the household She had lost a baby before, she had forced herself to confide This time she didn't want to raise Vito's hopes unnecessarily, she had said Priya had understood such a motive In her cultureexperiences That was a woman's duty

Oh, yes, no doubt at all, she was pregnant She required neither test nor examination to confir and incredibly sensitive, and if she hadn't been convinced that it was far too soon for her waist to start expanding she would have sworn her skirts were getting uncoht Maybe she would blow up like a balloon by the thirdcould she hope to keep her secret?

Vito shared her bed every night Vito ht For that matter, Vito made love to her in the afternoons as well In fact, this was just about the only time of day when he kept his hands off her And she liked it that way, in fact she loved his constant hunger for her, revelled in this one hold she had over hih it was