He dipped his head, drawing a rounded, full globe into his mouth. The pull and scrape and tug at her sensitive skin made Erin writhe against him. She slid eager fingers into his hair, held her to him. Gently he nipped at the captive peaks and her body arched in fevered response. Skimming his hands over her, he watched as sensations flooded her. He caressed and plucked and nibbled. Over and under. Inside. When her body was a quivering length of damp skin and tattered sighs, he whispered, “Let me have you.”

“Not yet.” Slithering against him, she returned his sensuous torment in full measure. Heated caresses redoubled, and she paid him back, stroke for stroke.

Soon they wrestled in rapturous battle, each determined to give. Gabriel felt himself falling and he flipped her beneath him. He fumbled for protection, groaned as she sheathed him. Then he yanked her up to face him, to see him. To know it would only ever be him.

She circled him, enticed him. “Now.”

He tried to ease into the wet heat, wanting to spare her pain. She closed around him, a damp fist of delirium and control stretched thinner, finer. Her body bucked once, and he surged forward. “Wait,” he gasped. “Be still.”

“I can’t.” Reaching for the unknown, her hips tilted and he slid deeper. “Please.”

“I don’t want to hurt you.” Forcing their hands above her thrashing head, Gabriel clutched her wrists, joined their fingers. He pressed their lips together in a kiss that seized her heart. “I couldn’t bear to hurt you.”

“I know.” Erin stirred restlessly against the corded body of sinew and skin, the body that promised ecstasy just beyond her reach. Her slim back bowed like a reed, trying to take all of him. “You won’t.”

Slowly, inexorably, he moved within the satiny pulse of heat, surrounded and captivated. At the barrier, he captured her mouth in a frenzied kiss. When her body trembled and his vibrated in counterpoint, he knew.

“Now,” they moaned in aroused unison.

He flowed inside her. She surrounded him. Control, tenuous and thready, snapped. Frantic, urgent, their bodies joined together, hips dancing in sinuous motion, building heady enchantment.

They sank into each other, unwilling to be apart. They chased their pleasure, unable to be still.

They came together, knowing no other way.

ERIN, GABRIEL DISCOVERED to his amusement, slept with mindless abandon. Pale moonlight filtered through sheer curtains and highlighted the naked figure sprawled across the bed. Mussed hair tickled his chin, and even, peaceful breaths warmed his chest. One slender leg draped over his thigh shifted slightly, awakening his loins in a rush. Elegant fingers curled around his shoulder, and turning his head a little, he saw the other hanging off the bed. During the night, he’d roused himself enough to cover them with a tangled sheet, but it now bunched at her narrow feet.