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out unthinkingly, and then flushed at the passionate amusement in his eyes. „I mean – “
    „I couldn’t possibly hide my reaction to you. Why should I?“ He accepted his body’s fierce arousal with arrogant complacency. „But I want you to feel it, not just see it.“
    He captured her wrists and drew her hands down his chest. Kelsey stared in fascination as her wine-tinted nails trailed through the crisp hair that tapered down to his flat stomach. She found herself flexing her fingers just to feel the taut hardness beneath his skin.
    „Little cat,“ he muttered, and then he forced her hands even lower.
    „Do you really want me so badly?“ she heard herself ask tremulously, a strange sensation of feminine power springing to life in her.
    „I think I’d lose my mind tonight if I didn’t take you.“ He released her wrists and cupped her breasts, bending down to nip at the exquisitely sensitized tips with teasing hunger.
    Kelsey shuddered delicately as he reached around her waist to grasp her hips. She felt him drawing her tightly into the hardness of his lower body.
    „My God, lady. What made you think I’d let you walk away from me tonight?“ He began to probe gently between the softness of her thighs, his fingers searching and finding the part of her that was dampening of its own accord, not because of the shower. „And what,“ he added meaningfully as he felt the slick evidence of her longing, „made you think you could deny either of us?“
    She didn’t answer. There was no point trying to deal with the complex emotions storming through her, at least not on an intellectual basis. Right at this moment Kelsey could only feel and respond. Everything tonight was beyond anything she had ever experienced. For a month she had been tormenting herself with fantasies and dreams, all of which she had decided must not be fulfilled. But if she had been able to estimate even a fraction of what the real thing with Cole would be like she would have known the decision was out of her hands.
    Slowly, with an intensity that left her shaking, Cole explored her body. In harsh, heavy whispers he urged her to return the intimate favor. At the mercy of the unfamiliar passion and need, Kelsey obeyed. She touched him with every emotion from delight and shyness to tenderness and aggression.
    Cole welcomed all her myriad responses, clearly glorying in her uncontrollable reactions. Under his hands she drifted further and further into the whirling vortex of his desire and was barely aware of the moment when he turned off the shower. She was vividly conscious of her rising impatience as he insisted on towel-drying her hair and her body, however. When he had finished the task she was flushed and tingling with need.
    „Please, Cole,“ she pleaded, clinging to him as he quickly dried himself.
    „I told you,“ he reminded her thickly, „I told you that in the end you’d be begging me.“
    Later she would remember both the words and the satisfaction in his voice, but right now they were unimportant. „I want you,“ she admitted almost violently.
    „And I want you. Believe me, I want you more than anything else on the face of the earth.“ He picked her up again, striding back into the darkened bedroom. There he settled her in the middle of the turned-back bed, coming down beside her with a dark growl of desire.
    Cole gathered Kelsey to him, heating her body with his own, inflaming her with ancient words and even more primitive caresses. Kelsey was a shivering, demanding, uninhibited female creature by the time he rose above her.
    „Now, sweetheart. It has to be now. I can’t wait another moment for you. Open yourself, Kelsey. I’m going to make you mine.“
    Something in his words got through to her; perhaps the grim promise in them when instinctively Kelsey knew she should be hearing a passionate plea. Whatever it was, combined with the bold, aggressive manner in which he parted her legs and lowered himself to her, it caused