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“Can he make you feel like this?” Benteen asked, and rubbed his ainst the corner of her lips

“No No,” she insisted, and tried to slide her mouth under his, but he avoided the attempt

“Tonight, Lorna,” heto make you wantas you live”

“I don’t want anyone else,” she whispered

Her hipsIt see as he shifted to remove his pants with one hand but he wouldn’t release her arms Her skin flamed with the heat of his body when she felt the nakedness of his ainst hi her the satisfaction her body craved

With his hands and his ers to toes, stroking and nibbling until there wasn’t a part of her that didn’t tingle When he finallyof the mind, the flesh, and the soul There was a purity to it that brought tears to her eyes and an eroticism that left her limp

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Tellher waist—”that you can leave me and run aith Bull Giles”

“I couldn’t do it before, and I certainly couldn’t do it now,” she admitted, and let her hands play over his chest, now that she was finally allowed to touch him

“But he’s suggested it”

“Yes, but that’s only because of you—because he thought you were hurting me” Lorna shifted in his hold so she could see his face

“Hurting you?” Benteen frowned “What gave him that idea?”

“The way you and Lady Crawford behave together I saw it for myself today” There was a trace of accusation in her voice—but only a trace It was difficult to believe he could be having an affair with another woman after the way he’d just made love to her Yet there was still the evidence of her own eyes

“Sahat?” There was a narrowing of his gaze

“The way she touched you It wasn’t any different than the way Bull touched my face,” Lorna said