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keep from breeding.”
    What was a sheath? And sort of precautions could he mean?
    Thanks to many candid discussions with Margaret, she had far more knowledge of men and intimate relations than most innocent maidens. But never once had those conversations turned to the topic Blade had just mentioned. Margaret had desperately wanted a baby, perhaps hoping it might keep her ambitious, hard-driving husband home more often. The last thing she’d have wanted would be to prevent herself from conceiving.
    â€œOf course I know.”
    Genia hated adding another falsehood to those she’d already told Blade. But if he discovered the truth about her virginity at this point, he might suspect she was trying to entrap him into marriage, when nothing could be further from the truth.
    â€œI could tell you all the details.” She strove to sound confident and knowledgeable. “But I would rather not waste time on anything that keeps us from this. ”
    Hoping to rekindle his interest in continuing their mutual seduction, she pressed her parted lips to his and darted her tongue daringly between them. Her plan worked every bit as well as she’d hoped.
    As she drank in Blade’s deep, torrid kiss, she felt his hands upon her breasts, which still tingled from his earlier attentions. After teasing her nipples to hard, thrusting little peaks that begged for one more swipe of his tongue, he moved on to flutter his fingertips over her belly and further down. His lips soon followed the trail his hand had blazed.
    Nudging her legs apart, he knelt between them and grazed his cheek over the sensitive flesh of her thighs. The rasp of whisker stubble over her skin sent a scorching jolt of energy sizzling through her. Genia bit her lips together to keep from crying out.
    She had no time to recover from it before the slick heat of his tongue sought the sultry core of her womanhood. Lapping over her to the rhythm of the ocean swells against the hull, it unleashed a storm of savage pleasure that quaked through her in wave after wave, drowning her in vast warm sea of delight.
    Before she could catch her breath, she was vaguely aware of Blade rising like a powerful crest of surf, hovering over her then diving into her depths. There was a brief sensation of resistance and intolerable pressure followed by a searing pain. Then he was inside her, filling her, joined with her, and the pain did not matter.
    His lips sought hers with demanding urgency as if he were drowning and her kisses were the air he needed to survive. She tasted the briny musk of her pleasure upon his tongue and felt the welcome weight of his body upon hers. His hips began a steady rocking motion that soon sped up to match the swift gust of his breath and the headlong gallop of his heartbeat.
    The desire she had thought sated only moments before reared again with a hunger that fed off each thrust of his shaft into her. Some mysterious feminine instinct took control of her body, making her tilt her hips and arch herself to receive him.
    That same intuition warned her when his release was at hand. All his energy seemed to gather, tense and swell. Then it burst forth in great shuddering heaves that battered down a floodgate within her, releasing a tidal wave of bliss.
    Afterward, he cradled her in his arms, murmuring endearments and feathering kisses upon her brow.
    Their night together had been everything she’d hoped for and more. She was not surprised that Blade had turned out to be such a skilled, inventive lover, but she had not expected the tenderness he’d shown her. While part of her was relieved that he had not suspected her virginity, another part secretly wished he might have guessed the truth.

Chapter Five
    His high sea interlude with Genia had accomplished everything he’d asked of it—though not at all in the way he’d originally planned. Blade reflected on that irony one evening in April as the Hartwell sailed north past the