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His head fell back as he cupped both of her breasts in his hands. She saw the snarl that shaped his mouth as he watched himself touch her, his fingers plucking at the sensitive flesh, urging it to grow harder and stiffer until she wiggled her hips against him to get relief on her sex and called his name.
He glanced up at her briefly, the hard glitter in his eyes stealing her breath, and then he was sucking her other breast, drawing on her until she cried out sharply as desire stabbed at her from clit to her deepest core.
He rolled her onto her back and came on top of her.
“I’m going to fuck you,” he grated out ominously. “I’m going to fuck you hard for making me feel so much.”
Emma’s mouth dropped open but she couldn’t inhale. Her lungs had stopped working. It was like being pressed against the outer limits of an inferno that stole all the oxygen in the vicinity.
“Va
He started to reach for her bikini bottoms as if the voice hadn’t penetrated his furious lust.
“Va
“Va
“I’m coming,” Va
Mrs. Denis waved back and turned toward La Mer.
“We’d better go,” he said after a tense moment. “She wouldn’t have called if it wasn’t important.”
Emma nodded, still finding it difficult to catch her breath.
He reached for her discarded top and handed it to her. He waited until she’d replaced it and then jogged and leapt, making a perfect dive off the dock, knifing through the sea. Emma followed him. Despite his obvious disquietude, he waited for her to surface before they swam back together toward shore. The cold water was a slap to her hypersensitive nerves and dazed arousal, forcing her into alertness . . . forcing her to consider what had just happened.
When they climbed onto the shore together, however, and Va
She knew deep down she was right to have spoken about Cristina’s dying words, but that didn’t make her regret Va
“Don’t look so worried,” Mrs. Denis said soothingly as she opened a covered dish, revealing eggs and bacon. The housekeeper had had breakfast ready for them on the terrace when they returned, but Va
“Will it be ready for tomorrow?”
“If Va
When she’d finished a light breakfast, Va
“Is the damage to the course bad?” she asked.
“It isn’t good,” he admitted. “But it’ll be fixed in time. There are crews there now working on it. We’ll stop by and inspect it on the way back from Niki’s. Are you almost ready to go?” he asked, checking his sports watch.
“Yes. I just need to dress.” His gaze flicked down over her when she stood. She wasn’t wearing anything but a towel. His mouth hardened slightly and he started to leave the bathroom. “Va
He nodded once, unsmilingly. “Yeah, I’m fine.”
Then she was staring at the back of the door.
Chapter 33
During the drive to Nice in a convertible Montand sports car, Va
Niki had a small motorboat waiting for them at a dock at the club. Already there were Simon and Estelle Fournier, whom she’d met last night at di
Emma had learned last night that Estelle and Simon were on the racing committee. When they first got into the motorboat, the drivers, Simon, Estelle, and Va