The Complete Red-Hot And Historical Collection. Kelly Hunter

should go,’ she breathed, but her fingers were curling into his shirtfront and her eyes were full of longing.

      Gene needed no further invitation. ‘Sweetheart, I don’t think so...’ he murmured.

      Sweeping her up into his arms, without further ado he carried her across to the lavish double bed. As he laid her down against the rumpled silk sheets his heart beat so fast he was dizzy. Rose wasn’t looking sleepy any more. She looked wide awake, her flawless complexion no longer pale, but softly rouged pink with desire...

      As he started to lower the spaghetti straps of her nightgown down over her shoulders, so that the satin mounds of her breasts were more evident, he couldn’t resist a grin. ‘If I’d known you wore such sexy nightwear I would have battered down your door and come to you last night. Honest to God, I would have,’ he swore.

      For answer, she made a helpless little sound of hunger and pulled his head down to hers. As they kissed Gene reached down to his back pocket and drew out the foil packet he kept there. There were no more words after that. There was no need. His whole world had narrowed down to these few heatedly charged moments, to the beautiful woman beneath him and their hungry, insatiable need for each other.

      When he finally took her, with Rose’s strong, slender thighs wrapped round his middle, he honestly thought he’d died and gone to heaven. It wasn’t just her kisses and her body that were heavenly—everything about her was divine. Already he knew there was no way on earth he would be satisfied with just taking his pleasure and then setting her aside, as he usually did with the women in his life. A strong desire to really get to know her was building inside him.

      As she quickly came to her fulfilment her thighs clamped him even tighter and she rode the wild waves that took her. Staring back into her superlative violet gaze, Gene soon followed, issuing a harsh-sounding cry that seemed to emanate from deep inside him. In the aftermath of his climax he was rendered both breathless and speechless for a while before he came back to himself. Then he lay down next to Rose and gently pulled her into his arms.

      ‘Tu es incroyable...’ he whispered into her ear.

      Her pretty cheeks dimpled. ‘I like it when you speak French. You can whisper some more to me, if you like?’

      ‘Right now I’d willingly do anything you wanted, ma chère.’

      ‘I might hold you to that...’ With a teasing but knowing smile, Rose held her hand softly against his cheek...