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had burst.
    Beneath the covers he stroked Katy and felt a jolt of satisfaction when she moaned softly and pressed against him.
    Her small cry sent euphoric tremors through Garrett. She was reacting so beautifully to his touch. It surprised him, but it also pleased him as nothing else ever had. His fingers glided over her breasts and paused briefly when her nipples went taut.
    The lure was irresistible. Garrett reluctantly freed Katy's mouth and lowered his head to taste the hard berries he had aroused. Katy shivered when his tongue circled the peaks of her swelling breasts. Garrett was enthralled by the reaction.
    "So sweet," he muttered.
    His hand went lower as he eagerly searched for the soft, shadowed thicket that shielded Katy's most intimate secrets. She gasped as he found it, stiffening slightly as though afraid he would handle her roughly. She should know him better than that, Garrett thought. He would never hurt her.
    "Take it easy, honey," he whispered. "Relax. Just relax and let me touch you. Lord, you're warm. And so soft." He found the tender dampening womanflesh between her legs and closed his hand around her.
    Her fingers clenched in his hair, and her body arched beneath him in sudden, wild abandon. She was a sweet, even-tempered well-bred, well-mannered little mare who was suddenly showing him that she had a sensual, spirited side to her nature. Garrett hadn't expected it, and the new knowledge he was gaining about his wife sent the blood pounding through his veins.
    He wanted her; wanted her with a hot, sweeping passion that was totally new to him. He couldn't re-member ever having felt quite like this. No woman had ever given herself to him this freely, no woman had ever clung to him with so much urgency. He wanted nothing more than to bury himself in the velvet-lined sheath he was preparing. The small cries Katy was making against Garrett's perspiration-damp skin assured him she was as eager as he was.
    Unable to wait any longer, Garrett moved onto her, aware that he was trembling with the effort it took to keep from forging into her too quickly. He could feel his muscles bunching in his shoulders and tightening across his stomach as he struggled to keep a grip on the last shreds of his self-control. He was shuddering the way a stallion shuddered in the presence of a mare. Garrett felt the same primitive wildness coursing through himself. It made him light-headed and filled him with a sense of raw masculine power. At the same time he longed to give Katy the same kind of pleasure he was soon going to be feeling.
    "Part your legs, honey," he said through his teeth as he came down on top of Katy's soft, welcoming body. "Part your legs for me. Let me come inside. I want you."
    Katy's hands tightened around him, her fingernails digging into his skin and setting off new sparks of electric excitement. She shyly opened her thighs for him, and Garrett groaned as he reached down to guide himself into her warmth.
    Katy's small intake of breath was accompanied by a tightening of her whole body as Garrett thrust heavily into her. Her muscles constricted as if in protest and Garrett went still, aware of how small and tight she was. He must not hurt her. He must make this good for her. Maybe he'd already ruined things by pushing too fast.
    "Garrett, oh, Garrett my darling, I love you so much," Katy murmured, clinging to him as if her life depended on it.
    Garrett closed his eyes in an overwhelming sense of relief. It was going to be all right. She still wanted him. Slowly, carefully he began to move inside her, but the instant he sensed her renewed response he felt the last of his control slip rapidly out of reach.
    He clamped a possessive hand around Katy's rounded buttocks, bringing her up into the position he wanted so that he could drive as deeply as possible into her.
    "I want all of you," he told her hoarsely. "I want every inch of you."
    She said nothing, but she cried out again as he stroked into her. Garrett pushed