hips, gripped him and arched upward. Hard. Hard enough to drive him past all resistance and impale him deep inside her body.
She breathed a relieved sigh. âThank heaven. Hurry, Nick. Please hurry.â
And in that instant, he was gone. All he could see, all he could hear, all he could feel was her glorious heat, surrounding him and gripping him with overwhelming desire.
She was sobbing under him, begging innocently with her body for something she couldnât know. He bent his neck and sucked her nipple into his mouth as he fought to show her.
When her body began to shudder around him, Annie moaned with a low, keening cry that sounded like it had been ripped from her body. She dug her nails into his back and bit his shoulder as the shock waves rolled over them both.
Once again, in the deep recesses of his mind, the feeling that everything was exactly the way it should be slid in and out of his consciousness.
Nick shoved the strange feeling aside and gave way to the rippling pull of passion. He thrust into her with a violent and mindless madness until he too felt waves of frantic release. Grasping her tightly to him, he let the power and the magic roll over them as they flew high above the stormâhigh above realityâand rode the lightning bolts safe in each others arms.
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Reality returned to Annie in stages. Euphoria and boneless giddiness came first as Nick kissed her senseless. Their breathing was erratic. Their legs and arms still intimately entwined.
Wow. Oh wow. So this was what her sisters had raved about. No, couldnât be. This was so much better than any description sheâd ever heard or read. She was dazzled.
Finally, Nick lifted his upper body, leaned on his elbows and cradled her head between his huge hands. âAre you all right?â His eyes were glazed, his expression rather foggy, but his first thought was for her welfare.
âWonderful. How about you?â To her ears, that shaky whisper had come out sounding more like a purr. Small wonder. She felt as contented as a well-fed kitten.
His eyes smiled while he placed tiny kisses all over her face. On her eyelids, her chin, her temple. Nick was adoring her, cherishing her with his lips. The kisses were such intimate gestures that she nearly cried from the beauty of them.
âIâm dizzy with wanting you. Again.â He shifted his hips, pulling free. But she still felt the power in his lower body as it pressed hard against hers. âAnd again.â
Annie reached her arms as far around his waist as they would go and squeezed him tightly to her. âSounds good to me.â She could stay here with him like this forever.
Touching his lips lightly to hers, he groaned against them. âYou are so free. God, youâre generous andâ¦exquisite.â
She wiggled her bottom and got another groan for her trouble.
He raised his head again to gaze into her eyes. âBut any more tonight would be too much for your first time. You were a virgin, Annie. Why didnât you say something?â
âI didnât want to spoil it,â she admitted. âI wanted you. Everything else was not important.â
âItâs important to me. I needed you so badly tonight, but I shouldnât have been the one.â
âWhy? You have just given me the most wonderful gift of my entire lifetime,â she whispered. âYouâre like the best Christmas present. The ultimate favor Iâve wanted my whole life and never had the courage to go out and ask for. Please donât make it sound bad.â
Nick made a strangled sound deep in his throat and one of his hands strayed to her breast. As he teased the nipple, he gazed deep into her eyes.
It appeared to her as though he was trying to see into her soul. Finally, he bent his head and licked a path across her chest and down to the other sensitized breast.
Annie felt the heat explode through her, sending shock waves of pleasure that punctuated her
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