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I smiled “I didn’t notice And I like the crackle of the fire instead” I touched the lavish sheet again and asked, “Did you pick the bedding up in Paris as well?”

“As a matter of fact, yes”

“Well then, you’re nowhere near unoriginal And, really, Dane…” My heart fluttered A foreign feeling, but one that didn’t alarm me at the moment, because of his own admission This was all new and different for him, too Despite hoas completely in control of er

e doing, if romance wasn’t his norm, either, didn’t that help to put me on par with him in one aspect of this … relationship?

Joining me, he said, “Lay back”

He stretched out beside onal across the bed He raised e hand The other ski the outer swell of e to the dip in ression razed, his palm splayed He seemed to take in every inch of aze

His hand moved over the curve of my hip, and I breathed a little shallower as he brushed ht strokes

I squirmed restlessly and amended that no way in hell would I ever be on par with him in any capacity, because he was a master of seduction and I was 100 percent at his mercy

“What are you planning to do?” I asked as excitement and anticipation mounted

His fingers glanced over ht his hand to hisme

I sucked in a breath Let it out on one long, “Oh”

He grinned ht”

They rerip

“You’re going to tie h me?

He said, “It was hugely gratifying to know you were dying to touch me You, of all people”