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“It’s not arrogance,” she insisted, miffed “It’s my job”

“You taunted hiht of that still twisted in his gut like hissing snakes, Roarke tightened his grip on her face “Now you’re insulted, annoyed that he didn’t follow your rules”

“That’s a hideous thing to say Goddamn you, I don’t—” She broke off, sucked in her breath “You’re pissingsorry for myself”

“It seems to have worked”

“All right” She let her eyes close again “All right I’ht now Maybe by to it out You’re pretty good, Roarke,” she said with a ghost of a smile

“Thousands concur,” he htly between his thuer

The ripple effect made it all the way down to her toes “That’s not what I meant”

“It’s what I ently, listened to her breath catch

“Maybe if I can e to crawl out of here, I can take you up on your interesting offer”

“Just relax” Watching her face, he slid his hand between her legs, cupped her “Let lass as it slipped from her hand, and he set it aside “Let me have you, Eve”

Before she could answer, he shot her to a fast, wracking orgasainst his busy hand, then went lax

She wouldn’t think now, he knew She would be wrapped in layered sensations She never seemed to expect it And her surprise, her sweet and naive response was, as always,He could have pleasured her endlessly, for the si her absorb every touch, every jolt

So he indulged hi the s in the rapid breath that gasped from her lips

She felt drugged, helpless, her mind and body burdened with pleasure Part of her was shocked, or tried to be Not so much at what she let him do, but at the fact that she allowed him complete and total control of her She couldn’t have stopped hi on the edge before shoving her over into another shuddering climax

“Again” Greedy, he dragged her head back by the hair and stabbed his fingers inside her, worked her ruthlessly until her hands splashed bonelessly in the water “I’ed her throat on the way to her mouth, and his eyes were like fierce blue suns “Tell me you love me Say it”