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As always, it was the sound of my formal, given name purred in that delicious low timbre, rumbling against the delicate skin under my ear, that was my undoing.
I melted into the pillows and against the big body that felt more like a homecoming than a cage. The sky’s deep blue faded away, as did the lights of Kendal, far below. All I could feel was Xavier’s lean, muscled arms winding around my waist and neck, wrapping me with his strength, blocking out everything but him.
His tongue licked a trail behind my ear and down my neck. When he reached my collarbone, he bit. I arched into his touch and moaned.
“The only thing that’s changed now is this,” he said as he ground his hips into me, making the steel length very clear within his trousers.
I slipped my hands into his silky dark hair and pulled, egging him on.
“You want this?” he asked, both hands dropping to my hips, pulling me back toward him so I could feel his erection straining through his pants at my back. “Or something else first?”
One hand dropped lower to flirt with the hem of my nightgown. Fingers slid between my thighs, tickling the sensitive skin. I jerked and gasped when he dragged one across the damp fabric of my panties.
“I think she wants it all,” he rumbled, turning me in his arms so he could capture my mouth with his.
There were more arguments to have. More words to be said. But subsumed by his kiss, I couldn’t think of any of them. Xavier’s tongue twisted around mine as he shoved my robe down my arms, then reached down and pulled my dress over my head, leaving me, little Frankie Zola, naked in a duke’s country estate.
“You know I kind of hate you right now, right?” I murmured against his sweet, sweet lips. “You just distract me from it.”
Xavier only smiled before kissing me again. “Well, let’s just see if I can’t make you forget that completely, eh?”
I grabbed the open sides of his shirt, pulling him away slightly. “I’m still mad at you.”
Another kiss. “Fine.”
“This discussion isn’t over.”
Kiss. “I never said it was.”
“Xavi—oh—”
“Perfect,” he murmured as he cupped my face, bringing me back for yet another kiss. “Fucking delectable.”
“Xavi—”
“Hush,” he said as he trailed down my body. “We can fight more in the morning. Let’s just make up first.”
To my surprise, I was all right with that.
* * *
“Mama! Nooooooo!”
Like an automaton, I sprang from sleep only to find I wasn’t at home on the landing but in an opulent bedroom.
“Mama?”
Sofia’s voice was softened by the doors separating my bedroom from hers, but it was still there. I pushed back the covers and swung my feet to the floor.
“Where are you going?” Xavier asked, voice muddled with sleep. He stretched out a long arm and clapped a broad palm on my thigh to still me.
“It’s Sofia,” I told him as I pulled my robe over my naked body and tied it quickly around my waist. “She’s having a nightmare.”
That perked him up. “Eh?”
“She’ll be fine,” I told him.
“Mmmph. Come back to bed, then. She’ll fall back asleep.”
