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He sucked harder, and she forgot the words that formed in her mind before they could reach her lips She clutched his shoulders, but he pulled away from her Before Kate could collect herself, he braced hiht hand, which slid down her leg to--

There

"I don’t think that’s--" Katein her curls, and he lowered his head to her other breast, and she couldn’t answer, she couldn’t speak

Sparks started racing up her legs, and she writhed, her hands clutching hi down his arms, over his chest "I want," she panted

"What?"

He sounded entirely too lazy, too calm, and too in control His voice penetrated her brain and she opened her eyes She was just lying on her back like a ninny and letting hi with his fingers, she started kissing his cheek When he wouldn’t raise his head, she licked him like a cat, just the way he’d licked her, and purred when he shuddered at her caress

Finally he raised his head, so she licked the edge of his lips, and then nibbled at them, because the idea occurred to her, and they looked delicious

Gabriel put up no objection

She let her hands run down his back and over the curve of his arse, discovering thehills and valleys and the sht side

She could feel hiainst her, and it seen

"Kiss ain "Please"

He covered her mouth fiercely, and her arhtly would keep her steady in the firestor moments later, he broke off the kiss, only to say, "I want to ht, but Kate"

"What?"

"If you don’t stop rubbing againstto be a very short and disappointing first encounter"

"I like it," she said, s "It makes me feelwarm And soft And"--her cheeks turned rosy--"wet"

He fra her lips with his, and suddenly she felt that part of hiainst her

"Yes," she breathed "Please" Everything in her body strained, as if all her concentration had gone to that fiery place between her legs

His eyes were black with desire "I need to put on a French letter, as co from the bedside table And then, a er and hotter than she would have iined He slid partway into her, and stopped, whispered so that she couldn’t understand

She drove her hands into his hair and arched toward hiroan that was alain

She screa owned, possessed and taken, the sense of another person, not just any person, but Gabriel, Gabriel

He pulled back "Does it hurt?" he asked "Talk to me, Kate We don’t have to continue We can--"

"Please," she panted

"Please stop?" He was hanging above her, his jaw tight, his eyes black with passion "Does it hurt too much, love?"

"I can’t--"

"You can’t take it," he said, withdrawing even e before"

"Da her voice "Come back, Gabriel Come--come now!" And she reached down and pulled him fiercely toward her

His smile flared with pure wild joy "That’s my Kate," he crooned, and he stroked forward