“I may well be hanged for murder. I have no money, no home, nothing to care for you— ”
“I don’t care!” She pounded his chests with her fists.
“I don’t have anything if I don’t have you! Don’t you fucking get it? I love you!”
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him tightly, their mutual sorrow burning into passion. This
would be the last time they’d be together, and she clung to each second as if she could burn it into her memory.
After all, those memories would have to last her a lifetime.
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Thirty-One Avery sensed his own desperate need to possess her in her own passionate caresses. He knew what she was feeling because it was the same searing pain that beat in his own chest.
His anger at their impossible position would do no good. His need to rail at God would gain him nothing.
But he could give her his love, himself, to carry with her on her journey.
And he would.
He covered her body with his own, their mouths meeting and parting, delving deep and nipping lightly.
Her hands roamed his body, playing along his broad shoulders, down the arms that held him suspended above her. Pulling his shirt upward, she arched her back.
“Please, Avery,” she pressed a kiss to his throat. “We don’t have much time.”
Her words were no less true than they were painful.
Rising on his knees, he pulled his shirt over his head. Her fingers fumbled on his breeches.
“Let me, my love.”
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barrier and released his erection. He knelt beside her,
hand delving beneath her skirts as her own soft fingers wrapped around his length.
“You’re the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen,” she said as he lifted her skirt to reveal her soft, white thighs.
“I love to touch you.”
His hand trailed across the dark blonde hair that crested her most secret flesh. “There cannot be a woman as lovely as you are to me.” He looked into her eyes, and his next words came without his forethought. “I would love nothing more than to have you as my wife.”
Tears sprang into the corners of her eyes, and she shook her head vehemently. “Stop talking. Come here and love me.”
She held her arms out to him, and he covered her body with his own. His tongue explored her mouth as his hands explored her body, loosening the buttons of her gown to release her breasts from their confinement. She gasped as his hand covered her pebbled nipple through the thin barrier of her shift.
“Avery, please,” she begged as she wrapped her thighs around his hips. “I don’t want to wait. I want you inside me.”
Though his body roared to claim her, he resisted the urge. He must make this last; he must carve this moment into his very being. Ripping her shift away, he bared her breasts to his hungry gaze. Her stays forced the beautiful orbs higher, and he took advantage of their perfect frame.
He bent his head and captured the tip of her puckered nipple between his lips.
Her fingers tangled in his hair and her hips thrashed as he flicked the tight bud with his tongue. He clasped GeekGirlsDontDateDukes.indd 295
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her soft, round buttocks with both hands as he loved her breasts. Her body was made for him, though she’d had lovers before him, and would in all likelihood marry someday…
Growling, he refused to think of the future. This was their moment, and it was their forever.
He covered her breasts with his kisses, and he ravaged her body with his touch. His fingers delved between her folds as he kissed the pale column of her throat, lightly sucking the pulse that fluttered there.
She was so wet, her silky skin parted easily to allow his fingers entry. One, then two, slid within her heat, and she gasped.
“Avery,” she moaned, raising her hips to force him deeper. “Don’t make me wait, please.”
Though he wished he could draw their encounter out for hours, days, their lifetime, he knew that he could not.
Kneeling between her parted thighs, he lifted her hips to receive him.
Poised at her entrance, her wet heat beckoning him, he hesitated. Looking down into her wide eyes, as blue as a summer’s day, he smiled.
“You are mine, Leah. My own angel.”
And he slid home.
There was nothing like that moment. Even in the times they had come together before, he had never known such pleasure as sinking himself into her heat.
Holding her close to his chest, he stilled himself for a moment, letting himself sink deep into the cradle of her body.
“Oh please,” she panted. “Please.”
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