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turn this strong man on. To turn him inside out and make him forget everything but how much he wanted her. Needed her.
     
    But those were dangerous thoughts, so when he sat up abruptly and flipped her onto her back, she didn’t fight him.
     
    Instead she looked into his passion-glazed eyes and licked her lips, savoring the sweet and salty taste of him on her tongue. Sweat was trickling down his forehead and over his chest as he fought for control of his raging body. She loved knowing that she had pushed him right to the limits of his self-control. But she had to know—
     
    “Why did you stop me?” she asked, eyeing the rampant proof of his desire for her.
     
    “When I come, it’ll be inside you.” His voice was harsh, rusty with need.
     
    “Sounds good to me,” she purred, turning behind her to the nightstand and the condoms that rested there.
     
    He took advantage of her turned back, reaching up and unhooking her necklace before she realized it. She turned back, eyebrows raised. “What are you doing?”
     
    His grin was wicked. “I have a better use for these.”
     
    “Better use?” As his words sank in, she knew her eyes widened in surprise. “Really? That’s not just a myth?”
     
    “Definitely not. Now lay down.”
     
    She followed his directions, her eyes both wary and excited as he began arousing her all over again. His lips were everywhere at once—her face, her breasts, the back of her knees, her shoulders, her ankles. Every place he touched caught fire and soon she was thrashing against him, as desperate for him as he seemed to be for her.
     
    Gabe reached a finger between her thighs, tested her readiness. When it came away soaked, he grinned before toying with her for a little longer. “Are you ready?” he asked, rolling the pearls slowly over her breasts and stomach.
     
    Her eyes met his, clung, and she knew he saw the beginnings of trust there. Taking a deep breath, she tried to relax, to ignore the sudden nervous flutterings in her tummy. She was out of her element, out of control. Uncomfortable doing something she’d never done before with this man who was pushing for everything.
     
    Before Gabe she had thought she’d tried everything once—why then did it surprise her that Gabe was the one showing her something new? It shouldn’t, not when he’d already shown her more about who she really was than she’d ever wanted to know.
     
    Taking a deep breath she reached for him, running a hand over the short, tight curls on his scalp. “Yes.”
     
    Her eyes met his and clung. As if he sensed her sudden uneasiness, he stopped for a moment and lightly kissed her cheek and the corner of her mouth. “I love you, Annalise.”
     
    And then he began slipping the necklace, pearl by pearl, inside of her, murmuring encouragement until only a few remained outside. “How’s that feel?” he asked, brushing soft kisses over her abdomen and upper thighs.
     
    Annalise wiggled her hips experimentally, more nervous and more turned on than she’d ever been in her life. The pearls shifted inside of her as she moved and she gasped, awed by the pleasure the simple movement sent shooting through her. “Wow,” she answered, looking into Gabe’s bold, beautiful eyes.
     
    His grin flashed, dark and dangerous. “Good.” And he then thrust a finger inside of her without warning, manipulating the pearls against the walls of her vagina as he did so.
     
    She gasped, arching off the bed as a wave of ecstasy more intense then anything she’d ever felt before rocketed through her. The pearls were everywhere, touching every single spot inside of her. Gabe found her G-spot with his finger and rolled pearl after pearl against it until she screamed with frustrated abandon.
     
    “I can’t take it, Gabe. I swear I can’t.”
     
    His grin was dangerous. “You want me to stop?” His voice was low and teasing, his eyes glazed and sexy.
     
    “Yes.” Her hips arched against his hand. “No. Oh God, I