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let her gaze travel the length of him, appreciating each muscle of his body until she saw that he was fully ready.
    “Melanie, you are sorely testing me,” he growled as he returned to her side. He drew her breast into his mouth, his tongue circling the nipple until Melanie thought she was being consumed by fire from the inside out. She moaned loudly, thinking the whole town could hear her. She didn’t care. Let the whole town know what they were doing as long as he didn’t stop.
    His mouth left her breast to travel up her throat to her ear. “I don’t think I can wait.”
    She turned his face toward hers and kissed him, tearing down all her walls and giving herself to him completely. Finally she pulled away just long enough to whisper, “Then don’t.”
    She spread her legs slightly, and Jake shifted to lower himself between them. She clung to his back, pulling him into her, feeling him fill her completely as she wrapped her legs around him.
    His head lowered to kiss her, his mouth demanding and urgent. She arched up to meet him, matching his urgency.
    “Mel...I can’t—”
    “Don’t wait. Now...now!”
    She shuddered her release. A second later, she felt him climax, then he collapsed on top of her, both of them panting heavily.
    Melanie smiled. He was so much better than she anticipated.

Chapter Fourteen
    Jake slid his hand down her stomach, letting his fingers trace across her skin, still amazed at how quickly he was ready for more. “So now are you glad you came back for the wedding?”
    Melanie looked at him from the corner of her eye, one eyebrow arching.
    “Your dad wasn’t sure you would come back.”
    She rolled onto her side to face him. “It’s not that I don’t like coming home.”
    “You’re a big city gal. I get it.” He rested his hand on her hip.
    Propping herself up on her elbow, she frowned. “No, that’s not it.”
    “I meant no offense.”
    “Everyone always gives me grief about living in Chicago. I lived here for nearly twenty-five years, and I’ve been in Chicago for a couple of years now, yet somehow I am seen as a traitor to the rural life.” She flopped onto her back, scowling at him when he chuckled. “Not like you’d understand anyway.”
    “Oh, you might be surprised.” He leaned in and nuzzled her neck.
    “Is it really so bad to want to experience new places?”
    “You mean, like here?” He kissed her shoulder, then moved down to her belly button. “Or here?” He drew a lazy circle on the back of her knee with his fingers. When she tried to snuggle into him, he pushed her onto her back once again, laughing. “Not yet. I’m not done playing.”
    She closed her eyes and turned her face away from him, but he could still see her smile. He was moving his hand up her thigh and across her abdomen, his fingers so light against her skin they barely touched her. Her flesh broke out into goose bumps, as if anticipating his caresses. The reaction nearly drove him over the edge with desire, but he focused on her. He wanted her desire to match his own. His fingers continued moving up, going between her breasts, then circling one and then the other in wide circles. He circled her breasts again and again, each time moving almost imperceptibly closer to her nipples. Just as he was about to cross the tender flesh, he made the circles wide again.
    “Not fair,” she breathed, then bit her bottom lip. “You’re torturing me.”
    “Now you know what you were doing to me all day today.” He sucked her earlobe into his mouth and nibbled on it gently as his fingers continued their circles. She arched her back, moving one of her nipples into the path of his fingers, then moaned at the heat searing across her skin.
    “Naughty girl.” His hand moved back to her abdomen as a whimper escaped her lips.
    When she looked at him, losing herself in his gaze and moving her hand to his stomach to trace his muscles as they tensed under her touch, he had to use every ounce of his