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‘Xandros!’ she cried out, half in consternation, half in bewilderment

She was utterly overcome

Overcoainst his strongher totally

He strode along the short length of the corridor, swept her into a bedroom

Not hers, but his

He laid her down upon his bed, flicked on the bedside light, caaze down at her

She could not breathecould not speak Blood was dru in her veins, her eyes, and she could only stare up at hi into hers, and now they were not half closed at all, but blazing with a gold that was not a glint but a molten pool

‘I have been waiting for this moment all day,’ he said, and there was a rasp in his voice ‘All day Waiting’ He took a ragged breath ‘Waiting since I saw you sashay out of that restaurant in London before we flew out to Athens And now, finally, my wait is over’

His head lowered, histo hers And she was lost Lost utterly in a bliss she could not stop because it was hi her with a slow, feathered touch that was deepening all the ti, seekingfinding Melding

It was a kiss as devastating to her as the kiss he had given her last night at her hotel roo! A thousand—

She could not stop him Did not want to Wanted only to let her eyes flutter shut and give herself to the exquisite feathering of his lips on hers, the soft, persuasive caress of histhe kiss

Bliss took over—sheer, gorgeous, unalloyed, insistent bliss Bliss that went on and on as his hands tightened on her, as his mouth drew from hers yet more response

A sense of sweeping oblivion overca, in the entire universe ceased to exist except this moment, now, this moment that went on and on

Until, as if he were pulling away under the strongest duress, he lifted his aze was a wash of desire that blazed from him like the sun

‘Welcoht,’ he said