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His hand cupped between her thighs, heated, calloused flesh meeting swollen, wet folds.
She arched and cried out as two fingers thrust inside her, throwing her higher, deeper into the maelstrom overtaking her.
And she let it have her. She let him have her. She arched, pulling at his shoulders, feeling him come to her. Thick and hard, his erection worked inside her, stretching her, easing her, building sensation and emotion into a kaleidoscope of color and pleasure.
When he was buried to the hilt, his breath rasping, his expressiontwisted in lines of hunger, she felt his desperation to meld with her inside her very pores.
“Hold on to me, sweetheart. ” He shifted and knelt in front of her, gripping her hips and pulling her to him until her rear rested on his thighs, his cock buried full length inside her.
Her hands grabbed his wrists as his smile, strained with need, seared into her brain.
“You hold on tight now,” he crooned. “I’m going to make you scream. ”
He braced his hands beside her on the bed as her legs curled around his hips. And he began to move. Hard, driving thrusts that buried his flesh inside of her. Again. Again. Sending lightning crashing across her nerve endings, fire building in her womb.
She held on and, as he promised, she screamed. She exploded around him, her back bending, her hands gripping his wrists, and heard his cry echoing around her. Heated warmth filled her as he began to ejaculate, deep, fierce throbs of his release sending her arching into more pleasure.
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p; He destroyed her. And he remade her. And when the final tremors eased, he pulled her into his arms as a tear fell from her eye. Just one tear, she told herself. She could afford to shed just one.
And that one tear seemed to last forever.
NINE
Rebuilding her defenses against Natches wasn’t going to work. He bullied her into returning to the houseboat for dinner with him, then he made certain she was too exhausted to return to her hotel that night.
She fell asleep in his arms, drained emotionally and physically, and knowing that if she wasn’t very careful, Natches Mackay could destroy her.
The next morning, as she had the morning before, she slipped out of his bed and off the boat. Her cab was waiting at the marina office, and as she opened the back door and glanced behind her, she saw him. Standing on the top deck of the Nauti Dreams, fog whispering around him, his chest bare. She wondered for a second why she bothered to try to run. And why it was so damned hard to face him after the wild loving he gave her.
It was a problem that followed her through the day, just as Natches followed her from one interview to another.
The first two interviews didn’t matter. They were surface tests, no more. Former friends of Johnny Grace who had already been cleared in the investigation. But she had to make it look good. Timothy had an idea of who was of major concern, and as the day progressed, Chaya became more nervous over that particular interview.
Because Natches was following them in his black jeep, watching her, always there.
As they pulled into the driveway of Nadine Grace’s home at about three o’clock that afternoon, Chaya felt like drying her sweating palms on her jeans before getting out of the car.
“You sure about this?” Sheriff Mayes stared at the house, his expression concerned, before glancing at her. “Johnny was her son. The only person in this town she really liked. She’s not going to be polite. ”
Oh, there was someone else in town Nadine had liked, and the thought of it sickened Chaya.
“I’m not here to win a popularity contest, Sheriff,” she told him as she gripped her briefcase and opened the car door. “I’m just here to get answers. ”
“And rile the Mackay cousins up?” he asked as he exited the vehicle. “I ain’t seen those two as pissed off at each other as they were yesterday morning in years. I’ll end up having to lock them up tonight if they get into a public brawl. ”
She flicked him a disagreeable look. “They’re not going to fight. ”
“And how do you know this? They nearly tore up that diner about two years ago or so. I had them in a cell for a weekend, and trust me, that’s not pleasant. ”
She rolled her eyes. “To start with, Dawg’s not going to risk making his wife that angry. And Natches wasn’t nearly mad enough to fight yet. Dawg won’t push him that far either. ”
Mayes shot her a disbelieving look but didn’t say anything more as the front door jerked open.
“Zeke. That’s a Mackay whore, and I don’t want her on my property. ” Nadine Grace’s pretty face was twisted in fury, her green eyes blazing with rage. “Get her out of here. ”
Slender, still attractive at fifty, and filled with anger, the other woman glared daggers at Chaya.
