Taken the Spaniard's Virgin
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He smiled, his expression filled with promise. “You are by far the most seductive woman I have had the privilege to make love to.”
“You’re kidding.”
“I am not.”
“But you’ve been with tons of women.”
“Not exactly tons.”
“All of them more experienced than me.”
“It isyou I find so captivating,mi dolce tesoro .”
His sweet treasure?She shook her head, trying to clear thoughts fuzzy from desire. “I always thought I was sort of sexless,” she admitted in a quiet voice.
He looked at her incredulously. “You turn me on so hard it is all I can do not to take you now.”
A husky laugh choked out of her throat.
He shook his head. “It is not amusing, trust me on this. I do not want to hurt you and you are innocent.”
“Which is why I can’t see myself as the most seductive woman you’ve been with.” Yet as unbelievable as it seemed to her, she did not sense he’d said the words out of mere flattery.
“As I said, it is the woman Amber Taylor I find so stimulating, not your level of experience or lack thereof.” He climbed onto the bed, one knee beside her hip, the other insinuated between her legs, pushing her skirt indecently high on her thighs. “Though Iam finding the lack surprisingly tantalizing.”
“Oh.”
“Do you know what I find difficult to credit?” he asked, leaning over her with his naked body.
“Wh…what?” she asked in an embarrassingly squeaky voice.
“The fact that you have never made love to another man.”
“I was never interested.” Hence her belief in her own lack of sexual feelings.
“Yet, right now, virgin that you are, you are panting for it.”
He was right and the knowledge did not even embarrass her. It was much too amazing. “I guess I was just waiting for the right man.”
“And that would be me?” He leaned down and nuzzled her neck, sending chills of pleasure along her neck and shoulders.
“Do you need me to say it?”
CHAPTER SIX
HE KISSEDthe corner of her mouth. “No, I can see it. And that in itself is an aphrodisiac of unparalleled power.”
“Is it?” She licked her lips, tasting him on them.
“Believe it.”
“What else excites you?” she dared in a soft voice.
“Everything about you.” He kissed her temple. “But specifically?” His lips moved along her cheekbone, tasting her with nibbling kisses the same way she’d explored him earlier. “The way you lay there watching me as if I am the most enticing thing you have ever seen.”
“You are.”
He groaned and kissed her full on the lips, exploring her mouth with his tongue briefly before lifting his head. “And your honesty…I find that a complete tur