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Over and over he touched her with his tongue and his lips He drew her higher and higher, pushing her forward, then letting her fall back He made her pant He nearlyin it There was only thisto her

Her hter She could feel herself swelling, pushing close Her orgasly out of reach Close, so close, but not yet there

Then he began to flick his tongue over her center in an age-old rhyther, then two He filled her, pushing up as if to caress her from the inside, as well

One stroke, two…and then she was lost

Her release claimed her with an unexpected force She lost control and cried out She caers, his whole body Pleasure claimed her, marked her, then eased her back into reality

When she finally surfaced, he sat next to her, shed "Go ahead Gloat You earned it"

"I will in a second Meet ?"

"It’s a surprise"

He hurried down the stairs She watched hi nad on his stairs and she had no idea if this was housekeeper day or not Which got her e bedroom and had barely pulled back the covers when he walked into the roone flutes and a bottle of Dohed "You did say you always had some on hand"

"I did"

While he opened the bottle, she clilass, took off the rest of his clothes and joined her

"To unexpected surprises," he said, touching his flute to hers "You more than qualify"

She opened her mouth, then closed it She couldn’t speak, couldn’t move, could barely breathe It was as if she’d been flash-frozen

And then she knehy Looking at Todd, at his handso in his bed after he’d just taken her on an aly sensual journey, she suddenly realized what she’d been ignoring all along

He was perfect

Well, not perfect Thefor Caring, war, deter brain

Perfect

And so the way, she’d fallen in love with hied to distract Marina fro she ducked out early, clai with Willow She was terrified that she wouldn’t be able to keep acting normally around Todd How could she when her brain was practically rotating from shock?

In love with Todd? How? When? She wasn’t supposed to fall in love with anyone, and should the unexpected happen, did it have to be with a man ould never, ever, under any circumstances, trust a woed As proht and left the keys in a planter by her front door She collected them on her way out and drove to the bridal salon where she and Willoould pick out a couple of brides yucky," Willow said after Marina pulled in next to her in the salon parking lot and cli you have to be tall to look good in I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m not tall"

Marina pretended surprise "Since when?"

"Very funny You knohat I iraffe but the rest of usdurinned "No dumpy dresses, I promise"

"You’d better I don’t want to be outvoted by the two tall sisters"

"Trust is an iaze "I don’t trust anyone with legs as long as yours" They walked into the salon "I saw the wedding gown pictures It looks great"

"I’ out the dress Julie picked," Marina said "It’s strapless, so I was thinking we could go that way, or do spaghetti straps Nothing long"

Willow rolled her eyes "Thank goodness I have so s And the bride always said ‘you can take it up’ Right Because there are so reen flocked short dress Speaking of green, I know that’s one of the colors, but co shades of rose, aren’t we?"

"Oh, yeah Green re I’ it"

"See This is how it should be," Willow told her "Sisterly solidarity"

Christie walked toward the ladies You must be Willow I’m Christie"

They shook hands

"Ready to try on brides Julie and she has a few suggestions"

Marina looked at Willoho groaned

"Good suggestions or bad suggestions?" Willow asked, her voice small

Christie smiled "Good ones I think you’ll be pleased Oh, Willow, did you wantout Julie’s dress so you can see it?"

"If you don’t reat"

"I’m happy to" Christie looked at Marina "Maybe we can do the preli"

"I’m available"

"Excellent Now if you till come with me, I have the dresses Julie liked picked out"

They followed her to a room on the side that was filled with bridesmaid dress samples Two dresses were displayed on the wall One was strapless, fitted to the waist, then flared gently to the straight hem There was an overlayer of some sheer fabric that was scalloped at the hem The second dress was a slip style, with a little bit of lace at the bodice and tulip heered the material on the second dress and smiled "I think both of these work What do you think?"

Marina nodded "Neither are scary I give Julie points for that"

"Good" Christie pointed to a set of dressing rooms on the far wall "There’s one for each of you inside Why don’t you try them on I’ll be back in a few minutes"

"Which means Julie e-mailed our sizes," Willowrooanization ever worry you?"

"Not too much" Marina pulled off her T-shirt and unfastened her jeans "They have shoes here that we can try on Just to see how the dresses look in heels"

The door to her dressing room opened Willow stepped inside and closed the door behind her