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“I can’t just… I mean, we don’t even know each other.”
“But you do hunger for me. I can see it in your eyes.”
She glanced away, not wanting him to read her so clearly and not wanting to see the yearning in his eyes, which so clearly went beyond lust.
His hands encircled her shoulders, sending electricity sparking through her.
“Celeste, think of the possibilities. Without even spending a wish, I will give you the greatest pleasure you will ever experience.”
* * *
Zurvan watched her, knowing she sought to hide her feelings from him and was failing miserably.
She drew herself from his grasp and moved several feet away, positioning herself with the sofa between them.
“What man doesn’t think he can do that?”
“True, but how many genies have you met?”
Her mouth quirked up in a shy smile, which he found totally entrancing. Hunger jolted through him like a bolt of lightning. His delicate thread of control burned to nothingness and he moved—or rather,shiftedthrough space—to close the distance between them.
A small gasp escaped her as his right arm curled around her waist, drawing her close to his body, the fingers of his left hand a feather-soft touch on her cheek. Their gazes locked and he felt a tremendous need build within him. And within her.
She stared at him, mesmerized. He paused, his lips a whisper’s breath from hers.
“I must kiss you. There is no force in this world, or any other, that can stop me,” he murmured. “Save one.”
A tiny breath shivered from her lips, but no fear tinged her water-colored eyes. And in those watery depths he saw passion begging to be unleashed.
“And what force is that?” she whispered.
He brushed her lower lip with his own. The soft warmth of her took his breath away.
“You,” he breathed. “Only you.”
He drew in another breath, conscious of the effort, intoxicated by her closeness. His need for her was unbelievable in its intensity. His fingers brushed lightly across her temple.
“Celeste, I will not do anything you do not want me to. Please do not say no,” he begged.
She shook her head.
His breath stopped as he attempted to summon the strength to pull away.
“I’m not saying no.”
Her delicate words jolted through him like molten lava. He wanted to devour her lips with a white-hot passion that would consume them both, to take her, fast and hard, again and again, until the entire energy of the universe flooded through them, exploding in a carnal mass of exquisite flames.
Instead, he lowered his mouth slowly, watching the hunger in her eyes ignite into a blaze of passion rivalling his own. At the delicate brush of her lips on his, his heart lurched within his chest.
Chapter 3
Celeste clung to him, lost in the flood of sensations from his mouth on hers, from the gentleness of his touch. The intensity was mind-numbing. She wanted more. She wanted to fling off her clothes and feel his naked skin on hers. Her breasts swelled in need, and the aching in her groin demanded all the sensual delights he’d promised.
Panic lanced through her. Oh, God, she had to stop this. She flattened her palms on his chest, almost losing it again at the feel of satin skin over taut muscles.
“Wait.”
The word barely made a sound, but she knew he’d heard because he stilled instantly. She could sense the extreme control he exerted as he slowly eased away from her. An inch.
