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She could ainst the back wall to her right side She stood, unable to go any further This was a bad idea What was she—mad?

She turned back to the door, and suddenly a hand was over her face, her nose, her mouth, and as a scream lit in her throat

“Hush now …” he said, holding her against his solid, unmovable body

She calmed down and then became flustered as he re him

He was naked All rebukes for scaring her were stuck in her throat Even in the dark, even with the e into submission in the fireplace at his back, she could see that he was completely naked and that, like a stallion ready to

She sucked in air, quickly She had to breathe, or she was going to pass out She had been insane to think this was so here?

“Is there so, beauty, I can help you with?” His voice was low and husky and traveled through her veins right up to her brain and blasted all coherent thought and speech into oblivion

She shook her head because she couldn’t speak

“No? And yet, here you are,” he answered, his voice a primal sound, the sound of a predator who had latched onto its prey and didn’t le ht

Did she want to be that prey? Was she that prey already? No She was the one who had come for him She was the hunter … or at least had been

“I … I …” she whispered

“I know,” he answered and had his arms around her as he bent and covered her mouth with his own

His kiss exploded inside her, and she morphed into someone ith abandon She molded herself to him She kissed him back with a fever that clearly said she knehat she was doing She wanted this No doubts—they had been expelled as his velvet tongue joined with hers

He had her pressed up against the door as his kiss turned into many, as his kisses traveled over her neck, as he dove into the neckline of her nightdress and exposed her breast and groaned to lick at her nipple

She was a tart, she told herself, indeed … and loving everywith being like this with theThis was just where she wanted to be