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don't understand now is the 'shouldn't' part. Why are you suddenly backing off?"
    "You'd never believe me. I-" He stopped in mid-sentence. "Could we forget I ever said any of this?"
    "I doubt it," Tori said, moving closer to him. "You'd better learn not to check your brains at the door before you open your mouth. You never know the trouble your own words can get you into."
    "I think I'm going to be in enough trouble as it is," Ariel said.
    "With whom?" Her breasts brushed against him.
    "It's you, you know," Ariel said. "I'm usually a pretty fair liar. I think you bring out the best-or the worst-in me."
    "Poor Ariel." Tori lifted her face to his. She could feel his heat. Her lips parted, only to be crushed beneath his.
    After all the inner barriers she had erected to keep her own emotions at bay, she found it difficult to break away from him. But when at length she did, she walked away from him, stood staring at the book-lined shelves against an inner wall. Her eyes drifted over titles that had no meaning for her; her vision was filled with her own quickened pulse. Blood roared in her ears.
    "Why did you do that?" Ariel asked.
    Without turning around. Tori said, ''Don't come any closer.'' She knew that she had to stop this now, before she got herself into something she could not control. This man had lied to her; he had known just what he was doing, taking her down into the tunnels under Buenos Aires. The only thing left to discover was where he meant to lead her.
    But all the while she could feel the heat building, a heat she felt all the way to her fingertips. Stop it! she admonished herself. Concentrate on what must be done here.
    She said, "Why do you live here, and not in Virginia? Doesn't Slade require face-to-face briefings anymore?"
    For a long time there was no sound in the room, then she heard Ariel moving, and a moment later music drifted through the house. Melissa Etheridge singing "Chrome Plated Heart."
    He came up close behind her, said in her ear, ' 'How did you know I work for the Mall?"
    Tori closed her eyes. "It wasn't just one thing. The Japanese who just happened to be in the tunnels. You said of them, 'If they catch us, they'll kill us!' Then, just now, you said you'd rather work with the Japanese. What would you know about the Japanese? But the biggest mistake you made was in not showing sufficient surprise at what I did down there: finding our hiding place, killing the rat, keeping you from making a sound when they were still out there waiting for us." At last she turned to face him. "I think it's about time you tell me what this is all about."
    "Later," Ariel said. "When there's plenty of time." his lips covered hers, and this time she knew she lacked the will to break away.
    She felt him around her, his arms coiling, a great masculine figure, hard and strong, a sanctuary within the heavenly aerie he had created for himself. And it was as if she had been dropped into me center of a whirlpool, in the grip of forces she could no longer hold in check. She was out of control; she knew it; and still the exhilaration rose in her, blotting out everything but Ariel.
    She crushed herself against him, feeling her nipples erect, feeling the long dormant liquid heaviness in her thighs and pelvis. She trembled in his embrace, and he lifted her off her feet.
    The taste of lust was in her mourn, the fire in her body given full reign, conscious thought driven away on the wings of her passion.
    She was so hungry-not only her loins but her empty heart yearned to be filled again, to throb at the sight of a precious lover, to anticipate his love like the coming of night, and then to feel it gushing through her like a mountain stream at the first thaw of spring.
    She wept as he kissed her breasts, her thighs, her wet sex. She murmured endearments when she, in turn, took him in her mouth, feeling him growing, growing, the taste of him intoxicating.
    She cried out when he entered her, her nails scoring his back as he slid all