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"You have been with a princess-" She turned her head to avoid being destroyed by his lips. "There were several well-known actresses-"
"Hmm. None of that matters now." He turned her head to him firmly.
"What makes me different?" She demanded.
"Damn if I know." He admitted hoarsely.
"It's just sex." She wanted desperately to inject some sense into the madness happening.
"Is it?" He kissed her hungrily.
"And - and-" her hands shook as she tried to push at him. "You will discover that this is a novelty- Dammit! Stop."
"Why?" Pushing her hands away, he crowded her, lips exploring the rounded lines of her cheek before nipping at her chin and then going for her throat.
"I want to think. Let me think."
"I am here, and I am here to stay." He ravaged her throat and left her as weak as a kitten. Her limbs felt weighted, as if she was dropping deep into the ocean.
"I cannot- Oh Lord." She gave up and wrapped her hands around his neck as his mouth took hers with a savage hunger that had her heart racing!
*****
It had been magical, and now it was over. It did not matter what he said or how many times he had made her come; she had finally stopped counting. The man had destroyed her senses and her nerves. But now they were back home, and it was time to return to reality.
She had a staggering number of packages to cart home, and since he had picked her up from the theater, Lord, was it only two days ago? It felt like two months ago, and so much had happened since then. He sent her home in his mile-long town car and promised to see her right after Christmas Day.
"You will spend the day with your brother, and I will be with Julie." He fussed with the expensive cape he had bought her.
"It's a family tradition." She found herself explaining as she delayed the parting. She felt a pang that she was leaving and was afraid it would be over as soon as she walked out the door.
"So it is with Julie and me. Or I would invite you to come with me."
She shook her head. "Christmas is for family."
"And lovers." He whispered against her lips as he kissed her hungrily. "I will be thinking about you and missing you like hell."
"You don't have to say that."
His eyes flared. "You don't trust me."
"I don't trust what we are feeling." She clarified. "This is too sudden, too intense, and I am afraid it will die out."
"Is that so?" He hauled her against him and kissed her again with enough fire to burn her through and through. "Does that feel as if it will die any day soon?"
"Callum-"
"No." he silenced her with one word, the authority in his deep voice getting through to her. "No. We are parting and going our separate ways, and I will not have you spoiling it. Have the day and spend it with your brother, Lynn, but the rest of the time is mine. I need that. I will spend the day with Julie at her place-"
A smile touched his sensuous lips. "She is off and has this thing where she insists on cooking an entire meal even though I offered to have the entire thing catered."
"It's more personal if we spend time slaving away at the stove." She smiled whimsically. "I will be doing the same, or rather, my brother, a far more decent cook than I am, will be doing the cooking. I’m making eggnog; it's my specialty. And he is going through a painful divorce, so I want to be there for him."
"I understand." he was loath to let her go, but the time he had taken away from his many business ventures was catching up to him. He had calls to make, contracts to pore over, and calls to return, not to mention the many emails he had seen when he signed in.
The corporate office was closed at this time of the year, but he paid his assistant a ton to have him on call twenty/four seven. "Will you come to me afterward? I want to spend Christmas night making love to you."
She opened her mouth to say no and decided against it. Because the truth was, she wanted to be with him, too. "Yes." She whispered against his mouth.
