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prepared her for how good it felt to pleasure him.
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    His gaze was fixed on her intent face, and at the sight of her breasts round and swaying, nipples peaked as she bent over him. He couldn’t take it a moment longer. He flipped her onto her back. His hands, shaking slightly, parted her knees; he rapidly put the protection in place, and sank in deep.
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    When Sabrina awakened, Vlad had built up the fire again. Its bright flames flickered their reflection in the darkened windows. The omnipresent rain made it impossible for her to tell the time of day. Was it daytime rainy and dark, or nighttime rainy and dark? She would have made a poor Girl Scout.
    She wanted a quick shower. They hadn’t used much water so the shower should be warm enough. Besides, the fire would help warm her even if the water proved cold. She knotted her hair on the top of her head. It would take too much water to wash again, and then she could leave some warm water for Vlad. She closed her eyes as a rush of liquid fire gripped her core. How had she gone from virgin to eager sexual pupil in hours?
    She’d never had the time or the inclination to indulge in a relationship and with the schedule she kept, she usually had more interest in sleep. She’d assumed that the sexual-adventure gene had passed her over. Her girlfriends had agonized over their ups and downs with guys, but she had never met anyone so tempting that she would put aside every other consideration but the needs of her body. The ultimate negative had been her father’s defection. Later, as a bystander to her mother’s subsequent relationships, the tough object lesson of her father was further cemented. Sabrina learned the lesson well.
    Romantic love didn’t exist. That last guy, Alex’s dad, whoever he was, had proved the theory best of all.
    But this was different. Vlad was different.
    Vlad was sexually irresistible, and as a first experience, she knew he was head and shoulders above any guy who had ever expressed interest in her. So now she knew what the fuss was all about. She counted herself lucky, judging from her friends’ tales. Vlad wielded his sexual expertise in a way that made her feel special; not at all like a one-night stand. And that was something at least. And really if she faced it, and she’d had to face up to so much in her life so far, when this storm passed, when the power went back on, they would return to their regular lives.
    Surely, by that time, the ridiculous headlines would be long forgotten.
    And when their fifteen minutes of infamy were over on the crazy baby daddy drama, she would be rational and appeal to his common sense. They would discuss it, and she would make him understand that she had not had any part in releasing a libelous story about him to the press.
    Maybe with the notoriety of their situation, she wouldn’t be able to keep her job at VGI. Surely, he would not do anything to prevent her from getting another position in another New York company. They would move on with their lives.
    Nodding to herself in acceptance of that inevitability, she opened the shower door and groped for the bath towel when the bathroom door was pushed wide.
    Vlad, all six foot three of him, gloriously naked, was about to step into the enormous shower enclosure.
    “Um, there’s still warm water.”
    Sabrina, self-conscious in spite of the past hours, feeling unsophisticated, pressed herself, futilely into the far wall. She was losing her words again and couldn’t believe that she was blushing. Not after all they had done.
    “You know it would have been more water efficient, greener, to wait for me.” He raised a brow, eyes mock serious.
    Then he blocked her with his body when she would have stepped out. He reached behind her, and turned the spray back on.
    As usual, Sabrina had only to look at him and completely lose rational thought. “Yikes!” she yelped as the water hit her breasts at the same time Vlad pulled her into his own hard body so the water