The Prodigal Prince's Seduction by Olivia Gates

Author:Olivia Gates [Gates, Olivia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Castaldini Crown, Category
ISBN: 9780373769483
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

Nine

“T he first couple of times?”

Durante lips spread at the squeak in Gabrielle’s voice, the disbelief in her eyes. At having her precious weight and surrender filling his arms after almost losing her, in so many ways.And he had almost lost her. In the one way he wouldn’t have been able to live with. Through his own actions.

She was everything he’d felt she was from the first moment, everything that captured his imagination and commanded his appreciation, roused his soul and aroused his senses. Proud and fierce, sharp and quick, pure of heart, rich in soul, as vulnerable as she was indomitable. He’d read her as accurately as she’d read him. He was certain now. No more doubts. He’d never let the outside world come between them again.

This time, and from now on, there would be no holding back. There’d be only holding on. He’d never let her go.

He gathered her tighter in his arms, filled his eyes and senses with her beauty as she clung to him, answered her incredulity. “Maybe after the second time I’ll be able to slow down a bit. I can guarantee slow, though, so slow until you beg, until you faint with pleasure, after the third time.”

“The third time?”

“Do you hear an echo?” He smiled into the eyes he could swear were emitting silver heat and hunger and…anxiety?

He wanted to kick himself. With what she’d suffered at a man’s hand, she could be totally misinterpreting his words.

He stopped in the massive vestibule separating reception and living quarters. Even though everything in him screamed not to lose contact with her, he gently put her down. She swayed, clung to him, her eyes a mixture of drugged arousal, confusion and alarm.

“What are you thinking, bellissima?”

She blinked at him. “Thinking? You think I can think now?”

“You look…anxious.” She bit a lip that trembled her confession. He cupped her face, freed that lip with a caressing thumb. “Is there anything you want me to know? Anything you don’t want me to do? Anything that might trigger distasteful memories?”

Understanding crept over her face, followed by urgency. “No! No, Durante, don’t think that, please. If I’m anxious it’s because I don’t know if I can…you see, I-I’ve never…you know…”

Suspicion rose in him at her embarrassment, became certainty in a heartbeat. “You never enjoyed sex.”

“I-I know I can, since I-I…”

“You pleasure yourself. But you never climax with a partner.”

Her color became dangerous. “Do you know everything? Or are you reading my mind?” She shut her eyes in mortification.

He brushed her eyes open with both thumbs. “And I told you I’ll take you fast and ferocious and you thought I’d take my pleasure and leave you feeling used and frustrated.”

“No, no…I know you wouldn’t…it’s me…I’m having…”

His lips twisted. “Performance anxiety.”

“You do know everything!” She buried her face in her hands, before dropping them, exhaling, eyes downcast. “Way to go, huh? Telling you that now, ruining everything.”

“You told someone before, probably your ex, and he used it to blame you for his shortcomings,” he growled.

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