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‘What…what do you mean?’

‘You knohat I mean Ihis fingertips the length of her inner arm until they rested on the furious race of her pulse

Sadie could feel her body yearning towards his, wanting hi he had denied her earlier

‘And this,’ he continued gently, as he raised his hand to brush his fingertips across her throat ‘You love me, don’t you?’ he demanded

He was so self-assured, so arrogant, that part of her wanted to be able to deny his words, to shake her head and tell hi tender little kisses along the length of her collarbone, pushing back the neckline of her robe so that it slid off her shoulder, offering up the crea hier dark flush of her nipples No wonder he was cupping her breast and teasing her nipple into an even harder peak, tugging it gently with his thuer so that it stiffened even h her fro her to the heat of her sex

‘What happens if I say yes?’ Sadie asked huskily,possession of her, encouraging her to dare to tease hi to dance, Sadie decided a little breathlessly, and suddenly discovering that by soether so well that you moved as one, without hesitation or aardness

‘This,’ Drax answered her softly, cupping her face in his hands and then stringing tiny kisses along the line of her lips, alternating kisses with the words, ‘I love you, Sadie Murray,’ so that they beca sensuality and desire that dissolved her doubts and melted her resistance

‘In that case, perhaps I should say it,’ Sadie whispered back to hi me that you love me’

‘I think you’d like it even more if I showed you as well as told you,’ Drax murmured

Sadie b

arely felt the robe being slipped from her shoulders It was all she could do to respond unsteadily, ‘You do?’

‘I do,’ Drax said, and then he gathered her up in his ar her to hiing for

The ti was over

Could there be anything ful than this? Sadie marvelled as she lay on her bed in Drax’s arms while he kissed and caressed her and whispered to her howher

‘I love you so much,’ Sadie whispered back ‘I want you so much,’ she added truthfully ‘Take off your clothes, Drax, so that I can see you and touch you’