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gripped his chest, catching his breath.
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"Your hair is beautiful." Somehow he'd known she'd make a stirring picture
with her long hair all loose about her shoulders. As she turned with the sound
of his voice, Webb moved toward her, drawn by a compulsion stronger than his
control. He stopped short of her, still staring and searching for anything
that would reveal her thoughts at this moment, but she wasn't letting him see
anything.
"Are you happy, Lilli?" He needed to know. Maybe if she could convince him
she was, he'd find the decency to walk back to the other side of the room.
"I was--" Lilli cut her answer short, stunned to hear herself speak in the
past tense, because it revealed something she hadn't meant Webb to know. She
tried to turn away, but his hands were on her shoulders to keep her facing
him.
"Does he make you happy?" This time it was a demand, not a question.
"I don't know. I'm so confused anymore that I--" She looked at him and knew
it was a mistake. His hair gleamed black and thick, as dark as his eyes
gleaming down on her. His features were handsome and rugged. Her gaze lingered
on his mouth.
"Don't look at me like that, Lilli, unless you want me to kiss you," he
warned thickly, his voice a deep well of emotion.
"Don't you see? That's just it. I do want you to kiss me." The admission
tumbled from her in an emotional protest at her own confusion.
But Webb didn't hear the protest within the admission as he gathered her
into an embrace that they both had fought against and lost. The long, urgent
kiss they shared was drugging in its force. Her arms were around him, pressing
him ever more tightly against her, while his fingers combed into the thick
tangle of her hair and held its weight against the back of her neck. The blood
was pounding through her veins, making her feel light-headed and giddy, weak
at the knees and in need of his body to support her.
His roaming hand was alternately caressing and arching her spine to press
her more fully to his male form. When his mouth slid off her lips to roll
moist kisses over her cheek and temple, she could hear the labored rhythm of
his
breathing that sounded as disturbed as her own. His moist breath warmed skin
that already felt feverishly hot. Passion and desire were new sensations for
her, and Lilli wasn't comfortable with them.
"I knew this would happen if you ever came back," she murmured in a choked
voice. His hard chin was near the corner of her mouth, the smell of him
exciting her senses.
"Haven't you realized yet that you can't keep me away?" Webb asked, resting
his forehead against her so their mouths could nearly touch and their breaths
mingle. "God knows I've tried, but I can't stay away from you."
The tantalizing nearness of his mouth was more temptation than she could
bear. She shifted her arms to curl her hands around his neck and bring his
head down while she lifted herself on tiptoe. This small display of aggression
sparked his, and the driving pressure of his responding kiss forced her lips
apart. When his invading tongue mated with hers, Lilli shuddered at the
igniting impact on her senses.
There seemed to be no right or wrong in what was happening. It was all too
inevitable. Having Webb kiss her, hold her, and caress her seemed to be the
reason she was born. When his lips began exploring the lobe of her ear and the
curve of her throat, chills raced over her skin, awakening her already aroused
flesh.
While his nibbling and intimate kisses on her neck arched her backward, his
fingers made short work of the little buttons on her blouse. Some thin
undergarment barred him from her flesh, but it was like a second skin. When
his cupping hand closed on a tautly rounded breast, he felt the hardened point
of her nipple in his palm.
Lilli moaned silently with a need she couldn't express. All this kissing and
touching had not been part of her experience, and certainly she had never been
aroused like this before. With Stefan, he had merely expressed a desire to
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mate, then mounted her with few preliminaries, and even those had been
tentative. She was beginning to understand that this hollow ache she felt in
her loins was a direct response to the virile hardness of Webb.
"I love you." His mouth rocked over her lips as he murmured his declaration.
"God help me, how I love you."
Those were words she'd heard from only one other man in her life, and that
was Stefan, her husband. A sense of guilt invaded her, bringing with it the
first resistance she'd shown to his embrace. Lilli averted her head from him
and brought her hands down to his shoulders.
"Don't say that." She was all tangled again in confusion.
"I love you," he repeated and cupped her face in his hand to turn her toward
him. "Not saying it won't change the way I feel." [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]