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wide eyed. His heart twisted, and if he hadn't recognized the expression as part of her act, he would have marched her right back up the hall and out his front door. No woman who looked this vulnerable deserved the things he planned to do to her.
    But then Eve wasn't just any woman. She was his for as long as he wanted her. Bought and paid for with the signed, open-ended credit card slip left with Priscilla for just such an occasion as this.
    As if possessing her would make him less powerful, the thought of owning Eve weakened his knees. He'd soon see if Eve pleased him as much in bed.
    He smiled down at her and some of the tension left her shoulders. Even so, the tip of her tongue darted out to nervously moisten her lips.
    Still unsure?
    Wanting to put her at ease, Nick slid his hand up her arm, brushed her shoulder, then cradled her head and kissed those moistened lips. "Mind if I take your hair down?"
    Her brief nod and hesitant blink were almost his undoing. Again he reminded himself she was being paid well for tonight.
    "Want me to help?" Her words were a sexy moan.
    "No need," he said, his voice as tight as his groin. The notion that Eve was under Nick’s control had Croupier leaping in ecstasy.
    Nick reached up and carefully withdrew a hairpin. Then another and another, until her topknot loosened. Just one strand at first, then more, until finally he could run his fingers, unfettered, through the thick mahogany mass.
    Nick lifted a handful of long hair and buried his face in the sweetly-scented strands. "Ah, Eve, you warm a man's heart." And well worth every penny Priscilla charges for your time .
    That thought brought him to the abrupt realization that he no longer cared to think beyond the soft, willing woman he embraced.
    With Eve at his side, a man could walk into the classiest home and feel proud he'd had the good sense to engage her for the evening. And know that later, her pert breasts would attract his hands, even if he wanted to refrain from touching her there.
    Which Nick most certainly did not.
    As his fingers massaged her scalp, she sighed, rotating her head in pleasure.
    "Lovely," he whispered, and buried his face in the soft waves again. "You should wear your hair down all the time."
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    And look like a school-girl instead of the professional realtor I've strived so hard to become? No way .
    Nick kissed her again, and all sane thoughts fled. His fingers lost interest in her hair and trailed down her neck, his hand coming to a halt at the slope of her breast. He sought her firm nipple with his thumb, and she felt it straining against the confines of her D-cup bra. As if entranced, he cupped the soft cashmere sweater covering it and stroked the mound of flesh underneath.
    Watching him, Eve could think of no reasonable explanation for her inexplicable wantonness. Sure, in her sex-deprived existence, she'd found ways to satisfy her baser needs, but falling into the arms of a complete stranger was not one of them.
    Still, she was not ready to call a halt to Nick's sexual assault just yet.
    Not while he held her so tenderly in his arms and looked longingly at her sweater-clad breasts, breasts that yearned for his attention with constant need.
    Heat pooled in her stomach.
    Off with it. Now. Strip me.
    She shifted her weight, her breast shifting in Nick's hand and exciting her even more as she did.
    Please .
    "If you like that, I've got more for you," Nick murmured, a smile in his voice, one hand fondling a still concealed breast. She writhed with an onslaught of desire that stopped her breath.
    Her head lolled back. Her lips parted, everything within her burned with need. "Nick... please. Now?"
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    Nick chuckled. "Sweetheart, we've only just begun."
    Eve was hot, like the sparkler he'd held too long one Fourth of July and burned his fingertips. He wanted her fully nude and beside him on the bed, so after another gentle squeeze, he released her enticing breasts. "Let's get you out of these