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He was holding her as he had done earlier, his hands sliding beneath the capped sleeves of her top to grip the rounded curve of her shoulders But this ti her as well—possessing herthrust of his tongue She knew she ought to stop him, to push hiy and a retraction of his accusation, but the need inside her was powering through her, obliterating reason and conscience, ruthlessly silencing every warning voice that would have spoken against it, filling her until there was nothing else—nothing else but his kiss and no one else but him
What was happening to hie indicter, and turned it into soical that his desire for her was drawing hiht in a powerful undertow He could neither resist it nor escape it It called out to hi that lured him into waters so treacherous that he was already lost
When he let go of her she reached for hi hiue with his in a slow dance of rebirth froe not as two separate people but as one He slid his hand beneath her shirt, spanning her back and then letting his fingertips trace the narrow sharpness of her collarbone She felt so fragile, as though he could crush her in his hands, and yet she was so strong—strong enough to overpower hiue-tip touched his h shocked by its own boldness, and then returned to taste hiain, almost compulsively His hands slid to her breasts Inside his head he could see hi thehtly corded with desire, the heels of her pal on his shoulders Anotherher top out of the way to taste her willing flesh…
Sadie quivered with eood to have hi away the loathso him to take away all the barriers between them, to hold her so that froht of today all she would be able to reot to this level of intimacy so swiftly, and she didn’t want to know All she wanted was to be burned clean and purified by the fierce heat of their ically holly suspended, overridden by the demands of a new command centre All she wanted was for Drax to take her to bed…No, all she wanted was for Drax to simply take her, she amended dizzily To take her coerly she pressed herself into his hands and his body, lifting her own hands to hold his head while she kissed hi to him how much she wanted him
This was madness, Drax knew But why should he not have her? She was offering herself to him, he wanted her, and hat he knew about her now she could never marry Vere Why shouldn’t he have her? Why shouldn’t he take her as she was begging him to do?
There were a thousand reasons why he shouldn’t—but they weren’t enough to outweigh the one co, compulsive reason why heher up into his arms and carried her into his bedroom Sadie wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his jawline and his throat, then pushed aside the neck of his robe to kiss his collarbone, so that by the tih on his scent and taste that no power on earth could have matched the intensity of her desire for him
Drax lowered her onto the bed, pausing only to shrug off his robe, and Sadie gazed up at hi at his ertip she traced the corded sinews of his arth beneath the satin heat of his skin His chest was dark with fine hair which arrowed doards, causing her heart to leap high inside her chest and then beat unsteadily and too fast as she re when she had watched hi froht down that dark line, and she had followed its journey and seen, as she could see now, the base of the stiffening evidence of his desire for her Sadie trembled as she leaned forward and kissed the base of his throat
Drax arched against the caress of herwhy that kiss and this woman should affect him so iht down to his toes
As she kissed hierly and easily from her clothes and into his hands Even now her ainst his skin She had fantasised about this, Sadie acknowledged dizzily, and now so on his back and she was above hi him The reality was a hundred—no, a thousand tis, and if she closed her eyes how much more intense would the sensation of Drax’s hands on her body be? But she couldn’t bear not to see him, not to watch him as he touched her and she touched him And she wanted so much to touch him…so desperately had to touch him
She leaned forward until her hair swung down to shield her face and stroke Drax’s body But he could still see her expression She touched hierly and yet unknowingly, as though everything about what she was doing was new to her, as though she was following her instincts rather than her experience When her fingers touched him and then curled around hi reassurance, and then, when he gave it, he could see her confidence grow—and with it her need It was as though she hungered desperately for hiht and yet fed her need for more of him
In her eyes was a look of wondering and aht It curved her mouth and somehow filled the air between the he had done before had been like this Or like her…Whatever ic spell she had cast it had pulled hiht hold of her free hand and lifted it to hisher soft palhtened and her belly quivered, and beneath her closed eyelids welled tears of intense arousal
He reached for her, his hands on her waist, lifting her and steadying her, his fingers digging into her flesh when he felt her hesitation
She ue, her voice husky and uncertain as she said, ‘I’htn’t we to…?’
He was tight and hot and hard with a surging need that didn’t want to wait
‘Oughtn’t we to what?’ he demanded