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nervous, cara . But I can’t seem to stop staring at you
in that amazing dress. Would you like a drink?”
    She shook her
head and he held her gently, his hands stroked her bare shoulders
and down her arms.
    Slowly he
tangled his hand in her hair pulling her head back.
    Nerves dried up
her throat. Why wouldn’t her brain function?
    “Nico, I don’t
think this ...”
    Those eyes,
dark with desire, studied the pulse thundering under her ear and he
touched his fingertip to the spot.
    “You think too
much,” he murmured and lowered his head.
    He was going to
kiss her, thank God.
    His mouth
stopped a whisper from hers.
    Those eyes
asked a silent question as they stared into hers.
    And she knew it
was up to her to take the next irrevocable step.
    Bronte swayed
and her mouth found his. Her heart was battering against her ribs,
resounding in her ears, while his lips gently tasted her. Slowly he
took them both, sinking, into a deep drugging kiss. She had no idea
it would be like this. It was all there, the power and the
strength. She opened her mouth and he tasted her with thoroughness,
so seductive, she almost wept. Swaying together, his fingers
explored her neck, moved into her hair, gently tipping her head
back to deepen the angle of the kiss. She’d heard of lights
flashing before a person’s eyes, but had never experienced the
phenomenon until now.
    Nico tasted of
pure sin and she loved it. Bronte pressed her body against his,
tunnelling her fingers through his hair.
    Nico caught her
bottom lip between his teeth and she groaned into his mouth.
    Through
narrowed eyes he watched her eyes mist and go dark. A spear of hot
and heedless lust shot straight to his loins. Hard and demanding
now, his mouth plundered.
    Even as she dropped
away towards surrender, Bronte’s fingers gripped his hair and held
fast.
    She heard him
groan in his throat, but the sound was muted by the roar of her
frantically beating heart. His body was so hard and powerful, his
mouth, so hot and potent. Heat flooded and scorched her body from
that one point of contact. His hands explored every inch of her
naked back and she gave herself up to the sensations pulsing into
her breasts and trembling low in her belly. The need to feed and
feed warred with the need to give and give.
    Her fingertips
constantly explored his silky black hair. God, he felt fabulous.
Her breath mingled with his, rasping in her throat and those hands
drove her out of her mind as they slid under the fabric of her
dress, skimmed under her breasts, teasing and torturing, never
touching her aching nipples.
    Bronte trembled
on the brink of the abyss, ready to leap. A voice screamed in her
head demanding to know what she was doing. She didn’t even know
this man.
    Tearing her
mouth from his, she gulped in a breath as her world lurched and
tipped her out.
    “No, Nico
...”
    Chest heaving, his
heart jack-hammering, Nico laid his forehead on hers.
    He’d never
meant for it to go so far so fast.
    He’d only
intended to taste, to enjoy the moment, but it had gone beyond good
intentions into something quite, quite different. The silken heat
of her mouth, the taste was so sweet; he could have feasted on
it.
    He closed his
eyes shutting out the sight of her, but there was no way to close
off his senses, the smell, the taste, or the softness of her silky
skin. She was inside him.
    A kiss was not
nearly enough he realised with dismay as his heart threatened to
burst through his ribs. What was supposed to be a light,
exploratory kiss designed to lower her defences had turned on him.
He’d been ready to prepare her for a long and mutually fulfilling
seduction where he set the pace and the tempo. Not this clawing
hunger in his loins.
    The need to
strip her, toss her on the sofa and plunge into her, shocked, even
terrified him. He never lost control. Alarm uncoiled in his gut and
finally entered his brain.
    What was he
doing?
    Then he lifted
his head and looked into her eyes dark and smoky with