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him farther in—to the deepest place and his eyes widened, slightly dazed at the pure pleasure and contact.
    Over and over, waves of release and need swept over her, and all the while Nevin lasted and lasted. She’d never made love with a man who had his kind of sexual stamina—nor who seemed so able to pull such satisfying release from her.
    When she felt the fullest wave of pleasure roll through her body, causing her to moan his name and squirm beneath his heavy frame…he came inside of her. Collapsing, his shoulders covered with a sheen of masculine sweat, he burrowed his face against her neck.
    â€œAh, Anna Draekus, what have you done to me?” He moaned, nuzzling her playfully.
    She stroked her fingertips back and forth over his prickling hair, holding him against her heart. “I think I just unleashed the tiger within you,” she finally admitted, giggling.
    At first he stiffened within her arms, but then relaxed, a beautiful, masculine laugh rumbling from within his chest. “Just be careful, Anna”—he leaned up on his elbows, staring intently at her—“this tiger has no leash.” She reached to touch his face, to let him know that being out of control was okay—but he pressed her palm against his lips. “And I can’t promise to be controlled.”
    â€œPromise me that you won’t be.”
    His smile spread again, a sideways tilt to it as he leaned down to cover her mouth with his own. “That, Anna Draekus, is probably a guaranteed fact.”

Chapter Five
    Another day, another sunset, and still no search parties had come. There was only so much you could do, really, to pass the time. At least that’s what Nevin told himself as he took Anna within his arms, just one more time. Again and again and again, the lovemaking had been unstoppable. No bounds, no limitations. Thank the gods that they’d had these two days alone, deep within the backcountry, even though he knew that someone would eventually find them. That was a good thing, truly, because you could only subsist on lovemaking and personal energy for just so long.
    Anna clung to his body, both of them naked and tangled together, so ready for it. But the lakeshore didn’t seem the right setting, not this night; he needed more from her. Hell, they needed more together, something more erotic, more at the very edge of connecting—and that’s why he was carting her right into the depths of the barely melted lake.
    It would be cold, bracing, but erotic as hell to take her there. For Refarians water was the most arousing element of lovemaking: In the shower, in a steaming pool, even in a frigid lake, and they were driven to near-madness with lust. She thrust her hands through his hair, capturing his mouth with a rough kiss even as he gripped her bare buttocks, steadying her against his own naked body.
    She had both legs slung about his waist. Her back was to the lake, her eyes shut as she made love to him with her mouth, murmuring his name over and over. As he stepped into the water, the first splash of the cold liquid sending a jolt through his body, she made a giddy, wild sound in his ear.
    â€œThat’s going to be damnably cold.” She worked to angle herself against his thick cock. If the woman had her way, he’d fuck her blind standing ankle deep in the lake.
    â€œYou don’t care,” he growled back against her ear, taking several deep steps, until, losing his footing, they tumbled together into the chilly water. His body was blazing with heat, burning from the inside out, and a light steam immediately circled them where they stood in the lake. “Besides, I have the gift of energy, remember?”
    Already the water that lapped about their waists was warming by multiple degrees. In a matter of moments they would be in a veritable hot pool, the temperature of that small ring about their bodies raised unnaturally.
    Anna’s heated body first cooled,