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close and his lips hovered over hers. Deidre’s heart began to hammer all over again.
    “Now I can finally do something I’ve wanted for a decade,” he murmured.
    The banked tension in his shoulders conveyed just how much restraint he employed. Jonas’ fingers trembled ever so slightly as he slid them into her hair. Cupping the back of her head in a firm hold, he covered her lips with his.
    As his mouth slanted across hers and the dominant thrust of his tongue demanded the same instant response, Deidre fell deeper into his strong embrace. Every warm, wet nuance of their tongues’ seductive slide against each other, their bodies melding into one another while their hearts thumped in tandem staccato beats, sent a heated flush of thrilling erotic vibrations all the way to her toes.
    Jonas’s kiss was so thorough and mind-numbingly sexy as hell. He blew through her expectations—he was decadent, chocolate sin. She relished every rasping movement of his mouth over hers, craving more.
    She wrapped her arms around his trim waist and kissed him back with just as much fervor. From his shoulders’ bunched muscles, to his tight grip on her, to the hard press of his mouth against hers, his kiss had a possessive undertone, as if he feared she might bolt any second. Deidre wasn’t going anywhere. The man fulfilled every fantasy she’d ever had about him, ten times over. And all this before he ever slid inside her.
    He lifted his head and his breathing came in heavy pants as he leaned over her shoulder to pull something from his horse’s saddle bag.
    Jonas’ intense expression sent a shiver down her spine as he released her and held out a jean jacket. He seemed to be waiting for her to put it on. Deidre raised an eyebrow, but slipped her arms inside the material without question.
    As soon as she’d pulled on the jacket, Jonas lifted her in his arms and carried her off the path to set her feet on the ground in front of a tree.
    When he placed his hands on her shoulders, she felt them tremble slightly as he stared into her eyes. “I’ve never ached for a woman as much as I have for you.”
    Without even trying, this man stole her heart. He swept it right out of her chest and thrust it back, beating so rapidly she didn’t know if her breathing could keep up with its thunderous pace.
    Despite her best efforts to remain unemotional, tears welled. “Kiss me, cowbo—”
    Jonas didn’t give her a chance to finish. He yanked her hard against his chest and his lips claimed hers once more.
    Deidre expected a frantic, hard kiss. Instead, the tender brush of his lips across hers only seduced her further. He suckled her bottom lip before his tongue slid inside her mouth to glide alongside hers in a leisurely, yet decadent, sensual dance. Moist heat flooded her core with each slow swipe.
    Deidre responded in kind. Her hands skimmed his chest then continued upward until her fingers speared through his hair. When she knocked his hat off and began to suck on his tongue, Jonas let out a primal grunt, cinching his hands around her waist. His kiss deepened, moving more possessively across hers as he lifted her and set her back against the huge oak tree behind them.
    The rough, unyielding surface of the bark behind her, coupled with the hard muscles flexing underneath her fingers made Deidre’s skin prickle in fervent response.
    Jonas’ fingers slid her skirt up, lifting it until his warm hands connected with her thighs. “Your skin is so soft,” he mumbled against her mouth, then he kissed her jaw as his fingers traced a seductive path up her inner thighs toward her sex.
    A sexy smile tugged his mouth upward as his fingers touched a patch of moisture along the inside of her leg. “The fact you’re so wet makes me want you even more.”
    Deidre’s sandals crunched the dead leaves under her feet as she spread her legs wider. She licked her lips and let her eyes close slightly. “Touch me. I’ve waited long enough.”
    “My pleasure,