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Elizabeth had to moisten her lips to allow her dry mouth to work
'No' How could he expect her to worry about the wafflings of a centuries-dead Roman poet when she could feel the rise and fall of his chest lightly tantalising her breasts?
Jack shifted, his hip wedging against her inner thigh as he took his weight on one arer over her daance, 'Woht'
Elizabeth ildly aroused but she wasn’t entirely lost to her female pride 'So can men,' she countered huskily
'So we can So I suppose it boils down to who isin each individual case Who is being caught here, Beth? You, or me?'
She vaguely sensed some trap that she needed to be wary of ‘I don’t know, uely, as she wondered how different his hard ne
'So you see us as equals, then? I like that It means fewer recriminations later,' he htly encircle her throat, then it tunnelled under the nape of her neck to pull at the pins that held her sophisticated hairstyle in place
'The smooth swept-back look doesn’t suit you,' he told her, as he fanned the dark, rippling waves across the white leather behind her head 'You should let your hair flow loose and untaht who didn’t look at you in that scrap of black silk and want you But you only looked back at one Me'
His eyes were dark with a triumphant satisfaction that made Elizabeth quiver 'And you didn’t put on that sinful dress and shrug off several hundred thousand francs just because you wanted to talk, did you, Beth? That's the kind of dress a wo reckless, not when she wants to impress with her honesty So what is it you really want froht?'
He was much too lucid for her to answer that question just yet Elizabeth shifted slightly within the cage of his body, her stockinged leg rubbing against his
'Don’t you know? And I thought you were a perceptive ers of one hand curved nervously into her palm as she reached out with the other to trace the hard curve of his jaw Then, iers into his hair and raked it loose from the narrow black band
His eyes narrowed to silver slits as his head moved down until he was just a kiss away 'You wantyourself and seek the pleasure that you know I can give you?'
Such beautiful, breathtaking arrogance Da questions and just accept? Elizabeth's impatience burst the bounds of her control and her hand flattened against his scalp, tugging him that last, precious inch
He didn’t taste any different, only better, the flavour of hi the hunger that drove her to wind both ar the co-operation that was strangely lacking Oh, God, was her desperate eagerness turning hied on her consciousness
As if her wavering doubt communicated itself to him Jack suddenly threw off his passiveness and took full co her jaw as he plunged his tongue into herat the soft innerery that utterly shattered her former notions of what a kiss could be His hair, freed fro therant darkness