Mackenzie's Mission by Linda Howard

Author:Linda Howard [Howard, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781597221481
Google: zEytAAAACAAJ
Publisher: Wheeler Pub Incorporated
Published: 2006-11-14T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

She drowned in sensuality that weekend. The two rooms of that impersonal hotel suite became very personal, imbued with the aura and memories of their lovemaking. They didn’t leave the suite at all, relying on room service for their food, and never dressing in anything except the bathrobes.

As a lover, he more than matched the strength of her passion. Caroline never did anything in halfway measures; she had been fiercely virgin, and now she was just as fierce in the giving of herself. He had never before given free rein to his appetites, but with Caroline he could. He sated himself with her, and yet never felt as if he had had enough. The hunger would roar back, again and again.

He had no inhibitions. He was earthy and powerful, sweeping her along with him, introducing her to more variations, techniques and positions than she could have imagined. Sometimes he was on top and sometimes she was; sometimes he was behind her. Sometimes he used his mouth, and he taught her how to use hers to pleasure him. He made love to her in the bathtub, on the couch, on the floor, wherever they happened to be.

He had a beeper on his belt, but the beeper remained silent and the outside world didn’t intrude on them. She had never before been so completely, overwhelmingly involved with another human being, to the exclusion of everything else. She didn’t think about work, didn’t fret for a book to read. She simply experienced.

By Sunday morning the initial frenzied hunger had been fed and their lovemaking had become more lei-surely, bringing with it the patience to linger over both arousal and satisfaction. An hour of sensual play had satisfied them for the moment, and Joe ordered a late breakfast; then they lounged in the parlor with their feet up while they watched television and caught up on the news. Caroline curled against his side, heavy-eyed with contentment.

He lifted a pale strand of her hair and let it drift down, the sunlight catching the gold and making it glitter. “Where are your parents?” he asked absently, paying more attention to the play of light than to his own question.

“Usually, or at this exact moment?” Her voice was just as lazy as his.

“Both.”

“Usually they’re in North Carolina, where they teach. Right this moment, they’re in Greece on a summer-long cultural tour. They’re supposed to come home the middle of September.”

“Were you lonely when you were little?”

“Not that I noticed. I wanted to learn,” she explained. “I couldn’t learn fast enough to keep myself satisfied. I wasn’t a comfortable child to be around, I don’t think. If I hadn’t had them for parents I probably would have been a complete wreck, but they helped me handle the frustration and didn’t try to limit what I learned.”

“You were probably a holy terror,” he said dryly.

“Probably.” She felt comfortable with it. “What about you?”

He didn’t answer immediately, and a tiny quiver of unease intruded on her massive contentment. He

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