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He uttered a low, guttural sound, and, while thunder and lightning played outside, Veronica exultantly embraced a ind teht as Luc stormed his way into her body, her heart, her soul…hoarsely shouting out her naant completion
She was even rin when he withdrew and rolled pantingly onto his side, looked slightly dazed by the experience
‘Are you blushing?’ she teased as he stripped off the used protection ‘Don’t worry, I promise I won’t tell anyone about your lack of sta in playful a that his bred-to-the-bone e
His eyes sed cheekbones as he looked at her lolling voluptuously against hisas she tried to repress her giggles
‘Think that was funny, do you?’ he drawled, a dangerous s across his mouth
He jackknifed out of the bed and padded without eht backside that had been a feature of her recent fantasies, and then over to the s back with a rattling jug of ice cubes, which he set down on the bedside table
’I’ve been looking forward to this,’ he purred, scooping the first ice cube out of the jug and prowling back onto the bed, blatantly displaying to Veronica’s fascinated gaze that he was already seh it had only been a fewrelease ‘Let’s see who has the last laugh now…’
Her laughter soon turned to squeals as the frozen cube stuck to her skin with an exciting burn, but it alan to trace intricate patterns all over her body, paying special attention to thethe ice slivers with his tongue as they dissolved on her silky-hot skin
In spite of the di of ice cubes her body was soon suffused with heated tension and Luc leaned over and flicked a switch on the fan to stop it rotating, directing the s a piquant wind-chill factor to the effects of his wickedly applied ice He teased arctic circles around and over her nipples,chill with the scalding heat of his mouth as he suckled to a thaw the frosty peaks Then he shocked her by drawing the dripping ice cube down over her quivering belly and through the soft thicket on her wos She gasped at the glacial caress, but he quelled her brief struggle with seductive pro the secret folds, teasing her until she begged again for the exquisite heat of his mouth
He coaxed the last ice cube into her ainst her teeth and let the icy droplets trickle down her throat When the sensitive inside of her mouth was almost numb with cold he whispered a wicked invitation in her ear and she quivered as she grazed her icy lips down the centre of his body, at the roan by pushing her frigid tongue into his shallow navel, and then shudder and oal and froze hied into her thick, tangled locks as his back arched and his hips surged, his thighs cording as the tension ripped through his muscles
‘Oh, no, not this ti her spread-eagled to the bed ‘You say I don’t tell you how I feel Let me show you…’
The final, sexy flourish hen he rose above her on his knees and—just as he had in Paris—reached up to release his hair frolossy blackforward to flare in a veil around their faces as he kissed her and rocked her with him to sweet oblivion
Afterwards, as she drowsed exhausted in his arms, he was the one anted to talk
‘So, tell me about this creepy ex-fiancé of yours…’
She was too relaxed to hold anything back as she told hiht his windfall would solve all their problee shock to Veronica that he would ether without even consulting her…especially when the farm he had chosen was in a particularly isolated area where there was no phone line, let alone access to the Internet He had known that she had no interest in faration to her parents He had always lived in a large town and boasted that rural banking was -stone to a city bank job He had claimed to understand her desire to live an urban lifestyle—to travel and run a business, and to bring up her children where there was a choice of schools And yet Neil had assumed that when he presented her with a fait accompli she would meekly bow to hi