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'Oh…' It ca rush as she met the promise of his eyes

'Russian bears have bad tempers, but they make up for it in other ways'

'W…ays?'

The sullen, sensuous beauty of his features blurred as he bent towards her to deentle, but she didn't want it to be There was too es of their anger to waste ti ti back to entwine on the bed, David shrugging out of his dinner-jacket and white shirt, ren phrases of delight at the loveliness beneath

'Speak English,' Clare whispered, holding out her arms to welcome him back

David held back, sitting beside her outstretched body, enjoying the agony of anticipation which had racked him for days and which was nohipped to its peak 'If you understood what I was saying, what I want to do to you and how,, you'd blush for a week'

Clare's eyes were a srey 'Tell me…show me…' she invited huskily, more uninhibited than she had ever been in her life Her body throbbed languorously under his hungry, desiring gaze 'Please, I don't want to wait any more…'

The thick muscles of his chest and flat belly clenched David leant over and turned the love-worn brown teddy bear's face to the wall

'There are soht make them discontented with their lot' The low, sensuous words shivered over Clare's skin, and she gave a tiny cry as she felt the warhs

'Beautiful legs…' He made her lie there while he admired them, worshipped them with hands and eyes and mouth, from the sensitive inner curve of her ankle to the palest, silky-soft skin at the top of her thighs where the loose ruffle of yellow lace could be coaxed to reveal its secrets

He seemed to sense the moment when she couldn't bear any leaainst the parted silk of the thin bodice, cupped in the darkness of his exquisitely knowledgeable hands Clare felt the heaviness of him, knew the taste of his desire, and wanted hiency that was as exhilarating as it was frightening He seemed to know her body better than she did herself, and she ached to gain that intie of him She revelled in the freedom to tease him as she eluded his caresses so that she could take off the rest of his clothes After she had knelt on the bed to rely restrained hi breasts while she attacked his trousers

'You must let me take some of the initiative, David,' she told hi in her innocent haste, 'otherwise I shall feel like a puppet, with you pulling the strings'

'I rather had in e of her vulnerable position to run his hand up the rounded curve of her buttock under the leg of her now considerably dishevelled teddy

'Ihis hand away, half-serious in her attempt to have him realise that she wanted to share the act of love, not just be a passive participant Her tongue curled out of the corner of herthe mystery of his fashionable cummerbund Suddenly, with her serness, she seeue to help concentrate when he was struggling with a new practice piece David stilled beneath her slender hands He had set out to seduce her and he had succeeded beyond his wildest drea flained hoould be But iination was different fr

om reality In reality one had responsibilities, to oneself and to others