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leaned
into his kiss, parting her lips to allow him full access, which he accepted
without hesitation. The kiss was hungry, his tongue caressing hers with slow strokes
that weakened her knees and set fire to her already cindering desire. She
clutched his shirt to keep upright, and heard herself sigh with pleasure. She
should pull away, demonstrate some pride, but she was powerless to resist the
fierce love in her heart and need raging in her body.
    “Perhaps it’s
time we took this someplace a little more private,” he groaned against her mouth,
his ragged breathing attesting to his fight to keep the kiss from reeling out
of control. “Come back to my room with me, Lil.”
    Lily’s heart
rate escalated, a new tension assailed her. She wanted this. She wanted him.
Already her self-control was slipping. Who knew what might happen if she
continued to move against Justin in this barely concealed mating dance.  If she
weren’t careful, she’d be manure for the office grapevine all the way into next
year.
    He stepped
back, capturing her hand in his warm clasp. “Let’s go before we get arrested
for lewd behaviour.” He led her from the cocktail party straight to his room.
    The door
shutting behind them echoed through the dim interior. Night was finally closing
in, and the room’s only lighting was a mellow streak of burnish twilight. She
caught an impression of luxury furnishings, vases of flowers, wide windows and
a large bed.
    He pulled her
close and brushed a kiss on her shoulder, then another.
    “I can’t stop
thinking about you.” His low, intimate cadence husked over her, making her
tingle all over.
    From the
tension that had radiated off him in the lift and the short walk to his room,
she expected him to leap on her and strip her before the door even closed. She
was unprepared for this show of tender love and respect and it melted any last
edge of resistance. She missed Justin, wanted him too much even to consider
denying either of them this.
    She slid her
hands up his shirt, enjoying the sensation of toned male chest beneath her
hands. Lily sighed deep in her throat with pleasure and closed her eyes,
wanting to enjoy every second of her body’s heightened awareness.
    His kisses
moved to her neck. “I love it when you do that.” He deposited a series of affectionate
nips with a combination of teeth and lips that took the strength out of her
entire body. He wedged his thigh between hers and she pressed against him,
delighting in the way his hand slid down to her tush to cradle her against his
arousal.
    Her sigh
turned to a moan, and she groped blindly for his mouth, suddenly desperate for
everything he had to offer.
    Justin’s
mouth on hers was ten times better than it had been earlier. Downstairs, she’d
been semiconscious of her colleagues’ avid attention, but now she was totally
in the moment, and it was WOW!
    Without
breaking the kiss, Justin scooped her into his arms and blindly crossed the
room.
    In seconds,
he placed her on the centre of the bed and came down next to her, never
releasing her from his delicious kiss. She kissed him back with equal
open-mouthed intensity. One kiss merged into another, so scorching-hot Lily
wanted him never to stop kissing her. If the last time they made love was any
point of reference, his kisses could last long, long into the night.
    He slid a
hand along her thigh, drawing her silky dress up as he went until her thighs
were uncovered. Tearing his mouth from hers, his voice raspy, breathing ragged,
he said. “Do you feel that, Lil? You make me tremble like it’s my first time...
I want you that much.” Then his mouth settled back on hers, and his hand
shifted between her legs.
    “Oh, Justin.”
Her breath came out on pants as she fumbled with his belt, pulling and tugging
to get it loose. “You make me tremble, too.”
    He cupped her
at the juncture of her thighs. “You’re so hot.”
    Liquid heat
suffused her and she gasped with pleasure, her breathing quick