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solution. His robe gaped
slightly, revealing a provocative glimpse of his pecs and Erika’s
breath quickened. A sudden desire to trace the outline of his chest
with one long fingernail ambushed her, quickly followed by the
urgent need to trail her tongue along the edge of every sculpted
muscle, from the nape of his neck, down the ridges of his spine and
around his taut bum.
    Stop it, a voice inside her head
screamed, cutting through the erotic images. This is moving too
fast. Let Aiden overwhelm you and he’ll take control.
    Urgently needing to distance
herself, Erika went over to the table by the window, pretending to
help herself to more coffee, but her hand shook so much she could
hardly pour. Aiden followed her and rested his hand on her back,
rubbing up and down her spine, thinking to reassure her, but his
touch confused her even more.
    “Don’t worry. We’ll sort this
out,” he promised, misinterpreting her hesitation. “We’ll find a
way to get your money back.”
    “I know.”
    Erika smiled weakly, thinking
that chasing up forty million dollars was the least of her problems
at that moment. Far more pressing was the urgent need to tear off
Aiden’s robe and play out a dozen indecent fantasies across his
body.
    Five years without a man in her
bed had been far too long for a woman as sensual as Erika and
standing within touching distance of someone as sexy Aiden left her
ready to explode with unsatisfied desires.
    Without giving herself time to
hesitate, she slid her hand around the back of Aiden’s neck and
pulled his mouth down onto hers. Startled, he jumped.
    Her lips barely brushed his –
all the while teasing, inviting, tempting him to return her kiss –
but he pulled back, frowning in indecision as he tried to work out
how far she intended to go.
    To answer his silent question,
Erika took his head between her hands and ran the tip of her tongue
across his lips. She tasted coffee and fresh strawberries when his
unshaven mouth parted, allowing her tongue to penetrate its sweet
depths.
    “We can’t,” he breathed,
although his body was screaming the opposite. “There’s too much at
stake. It’s too complicated.”
    Erika simplified it for him and
undid his robe. She eased it aside and slid her hands across his
chest, finally able to satisfy her fingertips that had longed to
explore its moulded crests and indentations since she’d watched him
at the pool. They thrilled at the roughness of his chest hair and
tingled as they caressed the smooth skin down his sides, following
the taut lines of his body all the way down to his hips.
    “Don’t. Please.”
    Ignoring him, Erika’s greedy
mouth left his and bit along the side of his neck and shoulders.
His skin tasted of swimming pools and the long remembered,
masculine tang of his powerful body. Unable to help himself, Aiden
moaned and buried his face in her hair, fighting to retain control
as a shudder of desire ran through him. But Erika pushed him away
roughly.
    “Let me look at you,” she
demanded, stripping off his robe and throwing it aside, hungry for
him and wanting every inch of him all at once.
    Every muscle in Aiden’s body
tensed as Erika’s fingernail scraped from the hollow in his throat,
across his heaving chest and down to his navel. His skin twitched
beneath the raw, red line left behind and Erika’s fascinated eyes
followed her hand down to the mat of dark hair below his tan
line.
    Aiden caught her wrist. “No.
This is wrong. Stop before you do something you’ll regret.”
    But what was there to regret
about that beautiful cock of his, jutting thick and strong, and oh
so temptingly beneath her hand? She licked her lips unconsciously
and imagined the pleasures yet to come.
    “I want you, Aiden,” she
whispered, pressing herself closer until she felt his body heat
through her robe. “Remember how good we were together? Let me make
you feel that way again.”
    Without giving him chance to
resist, Erika freed herself and wrapped