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“Co o to your place, but you said you had a single bed…”

I leanedan awful lot, Beckett”

“Say the word and I’ll take you home”

I said nothing, staring in his eyes, knowing that I wanted hi

hts of Steve aith his kiss and his touch

So I said nothing

Finally, he drove off and we zipped through the almost deserted streets to his place in Hell’s Kitchen

We didn’t talk while he drove, and it was as if we both were afraid to say anything in case whatever was happening between us stopped When we finally arrived at his building, I let him lead me up the stairs to the front entrance and into the elevator He pulled ht at the Yacht Club and we kissed, deeply, ht that finally, it was clear to me how I felt and what I wanted

When we entered his penthouse apartment, I barely saw the place, despitesized four poster bed and pulled s, my arms around his shoulders

We sat like that for a ave into my desires At that moh he deceived me I was so afraid after Dan died that I’d never meet another man ould make my pulse quicken and my heart squeeze the way it did with Dan, but I had

Beckett ood It felt like I was finally living again Until Beckett, I’d just been existing

He pulled offthe skin on the down one cup to reveal ently on it with his teeth and I gasped with pleasure

Then I was lost in the sensations of his ers and hands insistent, hungry, his eyes feasting onback on his bed

“Oh, God, Miranda,” he whispered “I thought I’d lost you forever,” he ainst the skin on my neck “I couldn’t stand it Not after I ether, but I didn’t kno to ht”

I kissed hih to speak He made desperate love to me then, both of us so aroused and needy that I caan to thrust and he wasn’t long after, groaning when he ejaculated, my name on his lips