SAM WOKE TO a dark bedroom and soft lips on her back.

“Shhh,” Nick whispered. “I told Scotty I was coming up to wake you for dinner.” He cupped her ass and squeezed. “Are you recovered enough for a quickie?”

“Mmm, yes please.” Languid and relaxed after a great nap, she floated on a cloud of contentment as he shed his clothes and resumed the sensual massage, his hands and lips coasting over her back and bottom.

“Your skin is like silk, Samantha.”

She squirmed, trying to get closer to him, to find some release from the throbbing pressure between her legs. “You said we had to be quick.”

“We do.”

“Come on then.”

His soft chuckle irritated and amused at the same time. He loved to torture her, to make her beg, to make her come like she never had before him. His fingers dug into her hips as he lifted her to her knees and moved her legs apart. “I can’t wait until next week when I can worship this sweet ass for an hour before I do this.” He slammed into her, stealing the breath from her lungs and wrenching a sharp cry of pleasure from her lips.

“Shhh.”

“Don’t do that and then tell me I have to be quiet.”

His hand came down on her ass, drawing another moan from her. Then he picked up the pace and reached around to caress her clit. The combination had her on the verge of release within seconds. Normally, when they had time to spare, he’d back off and make her wait, but tonight he didn’t make her wait, driving her to an explosive release that had her biting the pillow to keep from screaming.

“Yes,” he whispered. “Just like that. Ah, God, Samantha...” He came as hard as she had, his fingers digging into her flesh as he heated her from the inside. “I can’t wait to have ten full days in bed with you.”

“Is that all we’re going to do?”

“That’s it. Every minute of every day for ten beautiful days.”

“I can’t think of anything I’d rather do.” She squeezed the hand he’d placed over her fast-beating heart.

“And that, my love, is why you’re the best wife I’ve ever had.”

Sam snorted with laughter. “I’m the only wife you’re ever going to have.”

“In that case, thank God I got it so very, very right the first time around.” He took a nibble of her shoulder and soothed the sting with his tongue. “Now get your lazy ass out of bed so we can have dinner with our son.”

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RECHARGED AND READY for battle, Sam arrived at her office at six-thirty the next morning to go over the reports that had been filed in her absence. Technically, her suspension didn’t end until zero seven hundred, but no one was around to snag her on the thirty-minute technicality.