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Eve stuing Mavis’s idea of dinner on her night off had been to take in a rival club Already aware she would pay for the evening’s entertain, Eve stripped on the way to the bedroom

At least the evening out with Mavis had pushed the Towers case out of her ht have worried she had no mind left, but she was too exhausted to think about it

She fell naked and facedown on the bed and was asleep in seconds

Eve woke, violently aroused

It was Roarke’s hands on her She knew their texture, their rhythainst her ribs, then bounded into her throat as hisher no choice, really no choice at all but to respond in kind Even as she fu into her so that she bowed up into the frenzy of orgasm

His ant hands relentless so that her cries ca climax to layer thick over the first

Her hands sought purchase in the tangled sheets, but nothing could anchor her As she flew up again, she gripped hirab handfuls of his hair

“God!” It was the single coherent word she ed into her, so hard, so deep she was amazed she didn’t die from the pleasure of it Her body bucked helplessly, frantically, continued to shudder even after he’d collapsed on her

He let out a long, satisfied sigh and lazily nuzzled her ear “Sorry to wake you”

“Roarke? Oh, was that you?”

He bit her

She smiled quietly in the dark “I didn’t think you’d be back until tomorrow”

“I got lucky Then I followed your trail into the bedroom”

“I was out with Mavis We went to a place called Ar to coely “It’s not , is it?”

“No” Recognizing the weariness in her voice, he shifted, gathered her close against him, and kissed her temple “Go to sleep, Eve”