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"Shh," he usting across her ear h sound escaped him and his hand flexed convulsively around her

"Letenough to coax her onto her back

Eliza stared up at him, awed anew by how handsome he was Hoas it possible that such a man would find her so desirable?

She didn’t care She was just grateful for her good fortune

With no further warning, he lowered his head and surrounded her nipple with the huasp, startled by the violence of her response His tongue curled around the aching tip, and his cheeks hollowed on a deep suckle She cried out, her nails scratching into the velvet coverlet His callused fingertips rolled her other nipple, then tugged She began to pant

"Jasper"

He growled and sucked harder, his tongue stroking the underside of the straining point icked skill The flesh between her thighs pulsed in ti e The hand at her breast slid lower, across the flat of her belly and into the dark red curls at the apex of her thighs

The shock of the caress froze her She was too sensitive there, too wet and swollen

"Touch nized it

He withdrew and caught her wrist, urging her hand to mold around the outline of his erection He showed her how to th Heat rushed up her ar her stiffenedher distraction, he resuh the lax barrier of her thighs His pal claim to the part of her that had always been intensely private

His dark head lifted He watched her reaction as his fingersto the entrance of her body

"Open," he breathed "Let me feel hoet you are"

When she hesitated, he took heracross hers in a brazen seduction His tongue followed the outer curve of her lower lip, tracing the shape before teasing the seaer, her head lifting in an atte the provocative distance between theht

Eliza ainst her sex