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body to his, hip to hip, thigh to thigh. His hands were busy with buttons and snaps and zippers, seeking hot skin and her moist core. Hers were just as frantic, tugging aside his shirt, diving below the waistband of his jeans. When she found him, he was already hard and aching.
    Rick couldn't wait, not this time. There was barely time to slip on a condom before he took her hard and fast, clothes tangled around their feet. Maggie was backed up against a wall, her legs around his waist. Her nails dug into his shoulders as she took him in, sheath ing him in slick heat.j
    Rick paused, tried to catch his breath, tried to make it last, but the sensations were too sweet, too intense, too commanding.
    In mere seconds, Maggie convulsed around him until he exploded inside her with the kind of heart-pounding, mind-blowing orgasm he'd experienced few times in his life, all of them with this woman.
    Her breath came in ragged gasps. His kept the same rhythm, as he stilled, letting peace steal through him bit by bit. Even then he didn't let her go, didn't move to separate their slick bodies. There was something powerful about staying like this, intimately and literally connected. He barely noticed that she was growing heavy, not when holding her close was so wickedly wonderful.
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    "Don't you think you should put me down?" she finally asked.
    "Not really."
    "Why not?"
    "Because as long as we're together like this, I doubt you'll be thinking."
    She laughed. "Definitely not thinking," she agreed.
    She gave a little wiggle that made him hard all over again.
    "Oh, my," she said when he began to stir inside her.
    "Oh, my, indeed," he said. "See the advantages of staying like this now?"
    "Maybe you should explain them," she teased.
    He gazed into her eyes, saw the quick flare of heat once more, felt her body already starting to shudder. "Why, darlin', it's obvious. Without moving a muscle, we're already halfway there."
    "Where?"
    "Heaven."
    "Rick, what do you know about me?" Maggie asked hours later. They were in bed now, but she was still wrapped in his arms. They'd barely left the room all day long.
    "I know that you're amazing in bed."
    Even though she knew he'd meant it as the highest compliment, tears stung her eyes. It was what she'd asked for, wasn't it? Wasn't she the one who'd let him think that was enough? Even so, she asked wistfully, "Is that all that matters to you?"
    "Of course not, though it was damn important about five minutes ago."
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    Irrationally angry, she crawled over him, dragging the sheet with her. She could feel his gaze burning into her, but she couldn't seem to halt the hasty exit. She had to get away from this, away from him. She'd done it again, done exactly what she'd sworn not to. She'd let passion trump any emotional connection.
    "What did I say?" he asked, his voice tense. "Obviously you're offended."
    "Not offended," she insisted. "What woman would be offended at being told she's great at sex?"
    He snagged her hand, pulled her back to the bed. "Then talk to me. Tell me what's going on here. I can't read your mind, Maggie."
    Maggie sat on the edge of the bed, trying to ignore the fact that Rick's hand was on her thigh. She struggled to find the right words. She had to make them good ones, words powerful enough to match the passion that tended to rule the two of them.
    "It's like I told you before, we rushed into this without knowing anything about each other," she began. "Compatibility in bed isn't enough."
    "Which is why I'm here right now, to spend time getting to know you better."
    "In bed," she retorted.
    He sighed. "Not just in bed."
    "Then why haven't we spent time anywhere else, not today, not in Boston, aside from that one event we went to. I had to do a lot of fast talking to get you to agree to that. You would have turned the limo around halfway there and gone straight back to your place," she reminded him.
    "But we did go to the party," he said. "And there was the photo shoot.