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He sure as hell didn’t want to.
“Stay,” she murmured, and he grunted again and let his muscles go slack.
After another minute, or maybe another hour, he said something.
“Mmm,” Anna said, because she had no idea what it was but she figured that mmm would cover all possibilities.
He laughed and rolled onto his side, taking her with him.
“‘Mmm’ what?”
“Mmm to whatever you asked me,” she said lazily.
Draco nuzzled a spill of curls off her cheek.
“I didn’t ask. I said.”
Her lips curved in a lazy smile. “The authoritative prince.”
“Damned right.” He rolled again, this time onto his back, taking her with him so that she lay sprawled over him like a blanket. A warm, silken blanket, he thought, his arms tight around her.
“I said so much for the best-laid plans.”
“I am,” Anna said primly, “very well laid, Your Highness, and thank you for asking.”
Draco laughed. “I’m happy to hear it.”
“So what were these plans?” she said, and kissed his shoulder.
“I was going to make love to you very, very slowly,” he said, running his hand up and down the length of her spine.
“Ah. Those plans.” She lifted her head, folded her hands on his chest, propped her chin on them and smiled. “You looking for compliments, Valenti? ’Cause if you are, all things considered, I think we did pretty well.”
There it was again, that wickedly sexy smile. Combined with the feel of her draped over him, it was causing trouble with his anatomy.
“You do, huh?”
“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” she said in her best courtroom voice, “consider the evidence.”
He shifted, just a little. “What evidence?”
“The evidence,” Anna said. “You know. Exhibit A. And exhibit—” Her breath caught as he shifted again. “Exhibit B,” she whispered. “Definitely exhibit—”
He cupped one hand around the nape of her neck and brought her mouth to his. His kiss was sweet and tender; she could feel a honeyed warmth spreading through her body.
No, she thought as his kiss deepened. Not just through her body. The warmth was everywhere. In her lips, as they clung to his.
And in her heart.
The realization made her tremble. Draco rolled her beneath him.
“Anna. What is it, bellissima?”
“Draco,” she whispered, and his lips found hers, moved over hers with passion and tenderness. “Draco,” she said again, and then she wound her arms tightly around her lover’s neck, and the world, and reality, fell away.
Sometime between midnight and dawn, long after the moon had set, Anna awoke to Draco’s kisses.
“Mmm,” she said sleepily, and he smiled and brushed his lips lightly over hers.
