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  “That’s just great, Brian,” Alec was saying. Dennie slid her hands around his waist to the button on his waistband and then slowly slid his zipper down. Alec caught her hand before she could do more, pressing her to him, and he was so hard that she was breathless herself for a moment, stunned at the thought of him that hard inside her. She bit his shoulder, and then licked the bite, and then moved up his neck to his ear.

  “You’ve got the contract ready now?” Alec said. “With the house guarantee?” He turned to look at her, running his hand up her side to her breast. She closed her eyes as his thumb stroked across the lace, and his palm pressed hard against her. “Dennie’s thrilled,” Alec told Bond. “You should see her face. Of course, I’ll meet you in the bar. Fifteen minutes? You got it.”

  He hung up the phone and then before Dennie had even registered what he’d done, he’d rolled to pin her underneath him again on the bed. “God, you feel good,” he said against her neck as his hands scooped under her and pulled her hips against his. “I’m never answering the phone without you again.”

  “Fifteen minutes?” Dennie wrapped her legs around him, trying to pull that lovely hardness as close as possible. “Fifteen minutes?” She dug her fingernails into his shoulders as he pulsed against her in response. “You’re going to leave me like this?”

  “No,” Alec said. “He’s going to wait.” He slid her bra straps down over her shoulders, and when her swollen breasts were free, he caught his breath and drew his finger lightly over the slope of one, and then looked into her eyes. “You are so beautiful,” he told her, and moved his hand gently to cup the naked fullness of her breast.

  She was so hot, his hand felt cool against her and that made her even crazier. Her breath quickened as he brushed his fingers across her. “Please,” she whispered, and then he bent to ease the heat by taking her breast in his mouth.

  Dennie closed her eyes and moaned and gave up sanity, moving against him while they both shoved clothing from each other with shaking hands until they were naked and slick with each other’s sweat, tasting each other with heat and need, drunk on the salty sweetness of their bodies. Dennie raked her nails down his back, and moaned, “Now,” and Alec yanked the drawer out of the bedside table, trying to find his condoms before they both lost their minds completely.

  And then he was inside her, and the shock of him in her, the fullness of him, suddenly kicked her craving to a fever pitch and made her rock into him, jerking against him so hard that her hips lifted him as she pressed her head back into the pillows.

  “Easy,” he breathed. “Take it easy, love.” He wrapped his arms around her and rolled onto his back, and Dennie felt herself slide down farther, harder onto him, felt the scream in her blood as every nerve she had expanded to meet him and everything inside her tightened and glowed hotter while he rocked and rocked into her over and over, until she didn’t know what was pulse and what was Alec. Then it was too much, and she writhed and cried out and clawed at him but he only held her tighter, his hands holding her hips to him relentlessly while he licked inside her mouth, and then it all slammed into her, all the heat and the pressure and the tightness, and she screamed. Alec rolled her beneath him and kicked off the slam again, and Dennie let go and shuddered under him, over and over again, feeling every cell in her body empty into him in glorious response. In the aftershock of her climax, she felt him jerk against her, too, the way she had shuddered against him, and then he was beside her on the bed, holding her, and she felt empty without him.

  He kissed her gently, and the kiss grew, neither of them willing to break it. When it did end, he let his lips roam her face, caressing her eyelids, her cheeks, and finally taking her mouth again, stroking his tongue gently into her. “I knew it would be like this for us,” he whispered to her finally, and she said, “I know. I knew it too.”

  Half an hour later, when they were both drowsy and calm and achingly satisfied, Alec let go of her with more reluctance than he’d thought he was capable of. “I have to go,” he said, and rolled out of bed and began to get dressed.

  “What are you going to tell Bond?” Dennie asked sleepily. “About being late?”

  “The truth.” Alec grinned at her as he buttoned his shirt. She was tangled in the sheets, and her curls tumbled into her eyes, and she looked warm and satisfied and his. He wanted her again, and had to tell himself sternly, Later. “I’ll tell him you were so grateful about the house that you grabbed me and ravished me before I could leave.”

  “That’s not the truth,” Dennie said, sinking deeper into the bed as she stretched and yawned. “You grabbed me.”

  Later, dammit, Alec told his body and said, “Close enough.” He watched her for a minute, planning later, and then he said, “You’re not thinking about doing anything dumb like leaving that bed, are you?”

  “Nope.” Dennie yawned again. “If I’m asleep when you get back, wake me up.” She rolled onto her side and curled up, and her body was outlined by the sheet as it stretched over her curves.

  “Count on it,” Alec said, and went down to finish off Bond.

  Half an hour later, he was back. Dennie heard him undress and then he crawled into bed beside her and wrapped himself around her from behind.

  “That was quick,” Dennie murmured, spooning herself into him.

  “He said, ‘Tomorrow,’ ” Alec said in her ear, and his breath made her shiver a little. “He wants you to be there when he signs the contract. You overdid it, dummy. He thinks you’re going to be so grateful, he’s going to get laid.”

  Dennie rolled a little so she was half on her back, her shoulder pressed against Alec’s chest. “He told you this?”

  “No, he told me the contract was so important to you that you’d want to see it signed.” Alec kissed her shoulder. “You really sold him, I’ll give you that.”

  “Thanks.” Dennie nestled closer, loving his body even more now that she knew what it could do. “Got anything else you’d like to give me?”

  “It’s going to be like this from now on, isn’t it?” Alec said sadly, as his hand moved up her body. “You’re always going to be wanting something from me. All I’m going to hear is, ‘What’s in it for me?’ Life will be hell.”

  “That’s not what I said.” Dennie rolled into him and let her own hand roam. “I’m pretty sure what I said was, ‘Why aren’t you in me?’ At least, I think—”

  Then Alec stopped her mouth with his, and they both forgot about Bond for the rest of the night.

  The next morning, they had to remember him.

  Dennie had slipped out of Alec’s room at eight, wearing the red dress Alec was never going to forget and carrying the purple underwear that he was really never going to forget. “We’re meeting Bond at ten,” he’d called after her, and she’d waved the purple lace at him and closed the door behind her.

  The room was a lot colder once she’d gone. What had been his plan? To talk her out of a life of crime, to talk her into moving to Chicago, and to talk her into bed with him. Only one to go. Not bad. Alec got up and headed for the shower, feeling very cheerful.

  Two and a half hours later, he wasn’t nearly as upbeat.

  “I know they’ll be here any minute,” he told Bond.

  Bond looked uneasy, clutching the contracts as if Alec were going to rip them from his hands, which Lord knew, Alec wanted to do. Bond had showed him the new clauses while they were waiting, and it was all there. Once they both signed it, he could arrest Bond and go back to seducing Dennie into moving to Chicago.

  But first Dennie had to show up, dammit. Donald and Victoria would also be nice, and he didn’t know where the hell Harry was, which was unusual to say the least, but Alec wasn’t being greedy. All he really needed was Dennie. If Dennie were there, Bond would sign anything. “We were up late last night,” he told Bond. “You have no idea how much Dennie wanted that house. That little girl can be very grateful.”

  Bond looked interested enough to loosen his grip on the contracts a little