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He kissed her, threaded his fingers into her hair, tilted her head back and kissed her again, and when she parted her lips, let the tip of his tongue slip inside her roaned with pleasure

“Then let’s uncoh whisper in the darkness of the narrow hall “Come to bed with me, Dawn Let me make love to you and you’ll see, baby, you’ll see how simple it can become”

She put her hands against his chest It alave her the space she needed to take a step back

“I’o, but I’m still—”

“I know”

She blinked “You know?”

Gray cursed himself for a fool This wasn’t the as He had to show her how much she meant to hi

“I know the kind of woman you are, sweetheart You said you’re married, and that means you still believe in the vows you took”

“I did, for a long time, but—”

He drew her into his arain and moved his mouth over hers in a soft, silken caress

“Kiss me back,” he whispered

She told herself not to, that this was a , and every beat of her heart whispered yes, yes, yes

“Dawn” He pressed his openin its hollow “Tell me what you want, sweetheart Let me hear you say it”

No, she thought Oh, no This was nice but she didn’t ever want to be with a ain She didn’t want sex, didn’t like it, didn’t need to lie on her back, staring at the ceiling, while sorunted and sweated and buried himself inside her…

Gray brushed his hand across the front of her T-shirt Her nipples rose, stabbed the soft cotton fabric and she caught her breath, stunned by pleasure that swept through her, pleasure so intense it verged on pain He dipped his head, kissed first one straining patch of cotton and then the other Dawn rose toward him, head back, and buried her hands in his hair Somebody moaned Was it she? She knew the sounds ly They weren’t sounds like—