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“Then touch me I want to knohat it is you desire, Ma…sir I want to understand what you’re feeling”

But she thought she was understanding perfectly well already She had understood the other day in the coach, when they drove around the park, twice The look of hunger on his face, the glitter in his eyes, hadsimilar happen inside her Now her stomach clenched and a ware and could not, did not want to, escape it

He reached out and brushed her with his fingertips

Light as the touch was, it made her shiver She stared at him, lips parted in astonish his thuainst her nipple She had never realized her own flesh could be so sensitive

He cupped her breast in his palift, and then his arm cahs, and he licked her with his tongue Marietta’s hands clung to his head, pulling hiainst her was exquisite She made a sound in her throat, like a purr, and he looked at her

His face was taut with desire, his eyes blazing, and his le he had been involved in was over—Max had decided to give hi For a moment she was confused by his capitulation, but then, still watching her, he ran his hand over her sto the sensation of her bare skin, and she let herself feel again His fingers brushed up, under the silk blouse, and they areable Her eyes flickered and she swayed

“Max”

“I’er, re you about desire That’s what you want, isn’t it, Marietta?”

He was tense, awaiting her answer, and once again, although she did not understand him, she acquiesced “Yes”

“If you want to stop then you’d better say so Now”

“I don’t want to stop”

His fingers reached the underside of her breast, and then his palently squeezing her He e her compliance, and then he leaned forward and covered the nipple with his h the silk

Her knees crumpled

He caught her, drawing her down onto his lap, and covered her face in little biting kisses, his hand still stroking her breasts It was bliss, she thought Complete and utter bliss…

Where was his other hand?