Nicholas’s mouth was hot on mine. His body pinned me to the door.

I attacked his lips with my own, eager to burn away any trace of that mystery woman who had been there before me today. Lilliana? Olivia? It didn’t matter who. My mind was flooded with angry, scalding

jealousy.

Maybe Nicholas couldn’t be mine forever, but here, for the duration of this moment, I was staking my

claim.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pushed my fingers through his hair.

He coaxed my lips open. It was no great feat.

When his tongue slipped into my mouth, I was ready and waiting for it.

As our tongues tangled, his hands wandered. He’d started at my hips, but in an impatient instant, his fingers slipped under the waist hem of my shirt and teased at the bare skin of my stomach.

kiss to moan. He gave me exactly one half–second before he plunged

away all over again.

touch was hot like a brand. I was laying my claim

deftly worked his way beneath it. His palm laid flat against the side of my ribs. Then, inch by

the bare side of

said, a moan and a plea both.

inch, and he

this time as a sigh.

stayed against mine, even when all we did was breathe on each other. I needed that closeness.

ready to give up my claim yet.

he said, voice low and rough.

was so easy to admit like this, safe in the circle of

his way back into my mouth, swallowing my moan. At the same moment, his hand shifted, and he fully grabbed my breast. My aching,

last time I had been touched like this – and wanted

was ready to

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