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Everything he’d just said, the rough quality of his voice as he said it, had her shivering with lust But still, she felt she should try one last protest, one last bid for sanity "But I’m the one who usually tells people what to do"

"Have you thought thatfor?" he said softly "That this is the chance to let so to take care of everything yourself?"

Her brain felt fuzzy with desire, but even so, what he was saying athering up all her courage "Takeshe knew, she was laid out flat and Marcus was over her, his large body pressing hers into the cushions He made sure her bound hands remained over her head with one of his while the other s at the exact moment that he covered her breast with his mouth

She arched into his touch, their conversation about howher what to do and how e before that--htest touch

"Give ed her, his words hot as he feathered kisses across her chest so that he could take the tip of her other breast into his mouth "Give it all to me"

His thumb made delicious circles of pleasure over her and she pressed her hips into his hand over and over again as her orgash her

Almost incoherent with exhaustion frouely aware of Marcus unwrapping the sweater froh half-closed lids she watched hio to the bathroom and then return with a condom on Her arms weren’t bound anyth toin front of the couch and shifting her so that her back and shoulders were braced against the cushions, but her hips were hanging off the edge Before she could take her next breath, his hands gripped her botto her irrevocably his, owning her as nothing butto feel his hardher arms around his neck, she pulled herself up so that her brsts were rubbing against the dark hairs on his chest Her reedy for his kisses--kisses she’d drea, even as she’d tried to convince herself that she was too busy to think of hiet enough of her, and then he was groaning against her lips, filling her so coht for breath When he broke their kiss and the sound of his pleasure reverberated in the rooe yet onear up with Nicola curled up in his ar at hiot how s bed, he was re one of his hands over her brsts and he had to dig deep for a control that had beenpractically since the moment he’d met her He would not take her before she even woke up

He tightened his hold on her, pulled her closer into him, even as he forced hi

He shouldn’t have spent ht on Smith’s couch while she slept on his lap had been tooforward to an entire day with her, shouldn’t feel like a kid in a candy store at the chance to see the way her skin glowed in the sunlight, to ith held breath for her to laugh again and fill his soul with her joy and beauty

And he sure as hell shouldn’t be dreading saying goodbye to her when she got on her next plane to another town, another show

He was so focused on steeling hi for her that he was caught off guard by the slow slide of her tongue against one of his fingers, and then another, and another

Jesus, was she really going to lick her way up each finger, one at a time?

Holy hell, she was

Thank God he’d put sorab one Hating to take his hands froer than he absolutely needed to, he broke the wrapper open with his teeth and quickly slid it on

There were no words between theh and shifted her hips so that he could slide into her heat Her breath left her in a hard whoosh as he pulled her tightly against his chest

This hat he’d miss most, he realized as he slid his hand over her brsts and felt her heart beating strong and fast Not just her incredible body, not just her passion, not just the way she was seely always ready for him to take her like thisbut how pure, hoeet she was

The unexpected flood of e hold of the shreds of control he still held Knowing he barely had thirty seconds left before he exploded, he slid his hand down froers slipped and slid over her and then she was pushing back into hio, because she was already there

Together, Nicola helped hireet the day with more pleasure than he’d ever known And as her clier deny the truth: She now held a piece of his heart

Whether he wanted her to or not