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They tumbled onto the mattress in a tangle of limbs. Her pulse thundered fast and erratic through her veins. She was on the verge of spinning out of control, but she’d never felt more alive. When he tried to roll to his side, she buried her hands in his hair and beckoned him back to her. She wanted his lips on hers, his body pressing hers down.
She wanted him inside of her.
“I need a moment,” he said, “just a moment to take you in. You are simply breathtaking.”
She wasn’t breathtaking, but she felt that way when he looked at her, which was another first. It wasn’t as if she were magically “fixed” because some handsome boy thought she was pretty. It went deeper than that. Somehow, he did what years of therapy hadn’t been able to do: lowered the volume of her father’s denigrating voice so that her inner voice could finally make itself heard.
Eyes on hers, Noah traced his fingertips over her left nipple. “Thoughts of you distract me night and day. Earlier, while I was stuck in yet another endless meeting, which I usually thrive on, all I could think about was seeing you again.”
He teased his hand down her rib cage, down the swell of her belly. At the first brush of his fingers over her sex, her breath caught. Jolts of pleasure pulsed outward from where he touched her, goosebumps racing in their wake.
Her eyes crossed, and he split into two people. And wasn’t that just what she needed? Two Noah Whitlows to tempt and torment her. The idea was too much.Hewas too much. Losing the battle, she closed her eyes and focused solely on the pleasure of his fingers inside of her.
“Eyes on me,Bomboncita,” he commanded. “I want you looking at me when I make you come undone.”
But she was already coming undone. Didn’t he see that?
Basking unashamedlyin the glory of her climax, Noah took in every gasp, every jerk of Emma’s limbs, every tremble of her lips. He wasn’t naïve enough to believe this was her first orgasm, but he would be her first lover—and her last, as she would be his last. He was pretty sure part of him had known the latter since the day he’d glimpsed her at the gala. Hismamácertainly knew it.
Why else would she have given Emmathenecklace?
His gaze dropped to the tangle of diamonds resting between Emma’s voluptuous breasts. The necklace’s significance wasn’t lost on him, but now wasn’t the time to dwell on that. The present beckoned him. He’d figure out the future tomorrow.
“Noah, please.” She seemed to fight for words and air. “I want you inside of me.”
“Soon. I need to make sure you’re ready.”
“I am ready.”
“Emotionally, I think you finally are, but physically…” He paused and made sure he had her full attention. “Once I’m inside you, Emma, I’m afraid I’ll lose control, and if I do, I could hurt you.”
“You’d never hurt me.”
If only that were true.
He’d already destroyed one girl’s life. He didn’t want to destroy Emma’s, too.
Dropping to his elbow, he kissed her as he pushed his fingers deeper inside her.I won’t hurther, he swore to himself.I won’t hurt—
The sharp crack of breaking glass and the acrid scent of smoke shattered the moment.
