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name. When he felt the sharpness of her teeth against his skin, he jumped and set her apart from him.
    "We canna do this," he panted.
    "What? Why?"
    He could only answer her confusion with a pained laugh.
    "Collin," she moaned, "please." Her tongue flicked out to lick her lips. She stared at his mouth like it might save her from some dire danger.
    She needed to be startled to her senses just as he had been. "Think about this, Alex. Do you want me to take you here? Right here in the open, on the ground?" He threw the words at her in a growl—an insult, a threat—but they had the opposite effect he'd intended.
    Instead of drawing herself up in outrage, instead of slapping his face with the flat of her hand, she parted her flushed lips and sighed, and her eyes flared with blue desire. "Oh, yes," she breathed. "Would you please?"
    "Oh, God." He didn't recall moving toward her, but she was in his arms. He lifted her, carried her to a soft patch of grass sheltered beneath a tree, and laid her gently on the ground.
    "You canna expect me to ignore a pretty request like that," he murmured, pressing his mouth to the salt-damp skin of her neck. Her delighted laugh sealed his fate, and Collin lost his hard-fought battle with lust.
    Alex arched her neck to give him full access to that sensitive spot just below her ear. She felt the press of one of his hard thighs between her legs and scooted her knees farther apart as he kissed and nipped at her skin, and the muscles of her belly tightened at the feel of his body between her legs.
    She couldn't keep from humming in pleasure and was thrilled when her sighs excited him further, excited him until he kissed her so deeply her body ached with it.
    Urging him on, pushing him further, she eased her hands beneath the shoulders of his coat and slid the fabric back as far as she could. He broke away from her mouth, rising up to tear off his coat in one great shrug. Before she could manage to even pull his shirt past his breeches, he had framed her face with his hands and kissed her again, more carefully, nearly gently.
    That gentleness stopped the press of her need for an instant, brushing against her heart instead of her body. She almost pulled her mouth from his, almost pressed a hand to his chest to end this mad embrace. She almost tried to reason with her selfish body. Almost. But when he groaned and slicked his tongue over hers, she let her conscience sink back to its hiding place beneath her lust.
    The sea breeze caressed her, tried to cool her skin but didn't succeed. She felt the brush of air on her thigh, and knew that his knee had pushed higher, raising her skirts up her legs. His hand left her face to skim down her body, down to her knee, then up to push her skirt higher so he could slide the calloused pads of his fingers over the skin just above her stocking.
    A terrible and wonderful tension coiled in her belly. She'd certainly been touched before, but the simple brush of a man's fingers over skin had never affected her like this. His mouth moved over hers with such delicious skill, but all she could do was close her eyes and wonder at the effect his hand had on her body. His fingers brushed over her thigh, rising slowly up, closer to that place where everything tightened to a shuddering pulse. The anticipation built to torment, and she cried out before his hand had even traveled halfway up her thigh.
    A growl sprang from his mouth to hers, and his hand gripped her leg in a tight hold for a moment before he slid his palm up the last few inches of her thigh. He stroked just the barest touch against the curls between her legs, and she jerked her mouth from his, gasping and straining, then crying out when his hand lifted to hover over her, a cruel torment.
    Desperate, she opened her clenched eyes to slits to see him. His face looked carved from stone, it was edged so sharply, but his jaw jumped in time with her own pulse. Fearing he would change his mind and cry off, she squirmed