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She cleared her throat and tried again.
“Yes,” she sighed and laid her forehead against his, one hand clutching his shoulder like a lifeline, the other clawing into his chest as if she was trying to hold his heart in her palm, just to be sure it was real.
Thathewas real.
“I do want you. So much, baby. More than anything. I’m so sorry for what I said before. It was stupid and cowardly. I just didn’t want to—”
He put his mouth against hers suddenly, and she immediately stopped squawking.
But he didn’t kiss her, per se.
She had the idea that he only did it to silence her. It was more expedient than using his hands, since his mouth was right there, inches away.
“You talk a lot,” he murmured, pulling away and licking his lips reflexively, as if trying to figure out if he liked touching her mouth with his or not.
He was slowly killing her with desire.
“You don’t like it?” she asked, unreasonably shy. “My talking, that is. Not the…not the other thing.”
She wanted desperately to give him a proper kiss.
“I like hearing your voice,” he replied, which was sort of an answer and sort of not.
Then, one large hand reached up to rub a thumb over her lower lip.
“I like your mouth,” he observed gravely, his eyes focused on her, glinting in the dark.
“I like yours too,” she quickly returned. “I want to kiss you.”
His sooty-lashed eyes flickered to hers.
“Kiss?”
Oh, dear Jade Emperor in Heaven! She didn’t know how much more of this innocent torture she could take!
Divina didn’t think she’d ever been this turned on. No, sheknewshe hadn’t. And they hadn’t evendoneanything yet. Just a few touches, a few words, and a brief press of mouths.
At the same time, there was no denying that the purity of his innocence, combined with that innate primal masculinity, revved her libido like nothing she’d ever known. Or ever would, she suspected in the back of her mind.
A worry to be reexamined at a later time.
“Kiss,” she confirmed for right now, and was proud that her voice didn’t quaver.
“Let me show you.”
“Yes, my woman,” he husked.
“Show me.”
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The little gasp that huffed out of Divina’s mouth made Andros’ body swell and ache.
Gods! How he ached.
In his chest. Low in his belly. And especially in his groin.
He’d never felt this way before. He couldn’t think for the primal instincts that threatened to take over:
