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They were the same. They both took pleasure in moments of exquisite tenderness and the long, slow build-up of desire. Whispered words, waiting and watching to see the reaction to every new caress. But when passion got the better of them, she was bold. Unafraid to challenge him, and unafraid to be challenged.
Anna was his match. Equal and opposite forces, they fitted each other’s desires perfectly.
Her hair glinted in the firelight, spread across the pillow. When he pushed gently inside her, she seemed to bloom under him, and Jamie was carried away by the sweet ebb and flow of her lovemaking. Suddenly strong, because she had no hesitation in showing him how much he pleased her.
Sweat trickled down his spine. Every muscle quivered at her touch, and when she pushed him over onto his back, he knew one thing for sure.
‘I’m in real trouble now...’
‘Yes, you are.’ She bent over to kiss him. ‘And you can’t talk your way out of it...’
He knew. When Anna climbed astride him, taking him inside her again, it seemed that everything else was just a whisper in his imagination. Only she was real. She twisted her hips and he couldn’t help crying out.
She bound him in sweet, silken bonds of pleasure. All he could see was Anna. She was all he could feel. Her pace quickened a little and he reached up to caress her body, knowing that she was close to breaking. He wanted to watch, but when he felt her muscles tighten around him he couldn’t hold on any longer. He roared out her name, as his own release crashed over him.
It was a long time before he was able to speak. Jamie just held her, feeling her heart beat against his in a crazy rhythm. What they’d just done together had been frightening in its intensity, but he couldn’t let her go.
‘That was the very best kind of trouble.’ He kissed her forehead.
‘Mmm...’ she agreed sleepily, snuggling against him.
All he wanted to do now was to hold her in his arms, feeling the soft rhythm of her breathing against his chest. He wanted to drift off to sleep and find her there when he woke up. And if this really was asking for trouble, a loophole in their agreement that neither of them should have opened, he didn’t care. He’d worry about that later.
* * *
Jamie dreamed that he was caught in a web. Sticky and oleaginous strands held him fast, and every time he broke free there seemed to be more in every direction. He could hear Anna’s breathing, feel it almost, and he knew that he had to protect her but he didn’t know how. In the distance, an alarm was trilling. Something was wrong, and he had to get out.
‘Jamie... Jamie!’
He came to suddenly, still locked in the folds of the dream. His alarm actually was sounding, on the bedside table, and Jamie reached over to silence it. Something got in his way, and he realised that Anna really was there, too.
‘Uh... Sorry.’
‘Tha
t’s okay. You were dreaming?’
‘Yes.’ The alarm was still boring into his brain, but he’d have to lean across Anna to shut it off. Jamie realised that he was naked, and that she was too. That hadn’t seemed like a problem last night...
This morning it was an obstacle for both of them. Wrapped firmly in the duvet, she slid across the bed, hitting the snooze button on the alarm. That was the first problem of the morning, and quite possibly the simplest.
‘You have to go, don’t you?’
That wouldn’t have been so difficult if Anna hadn’t echoed Gill’s words. She’d seemed to like the fact that he was often on call at first, she’d said he must be important if everyone needed to call him so often. But after a while she’d frowned when his phone had rung in the middle of the night or at a dinner party, and Jamie had even considered not answering a few times. But he had to answer. Each one of these calls could be a child in trouble, and he’d promised to be there for them, day or night.
‘I’m sorry...’ That was what he’d always said to Gill as well. This was turning into a re-run of old memories and old mistakes, and it was just what Jamie had been trying to avoid, for both their sakes.
‘That’s okay. We’re not joined at the hip, you know. Remember?’
He did, and suddenly everything seemed okay. Better, at least. Anna had only been to basketball practice once, but she’d obviously enjoyed it, and become more involved than Gill ever had.
‘I remember. But it’s bad timing.’
Anna raised her eyebrows. ‘Not really. I’d come with you, but...twice in a row...’ She shrugged. ‘You don’t want everyone gossiping about you.’
‘If it keeps them out of trouble, they can gossip all they like. If you want to come, then come. If you want to stay here and have a lazy morning, then I’ll be sparing a few jealous thoughts for you.’
