by Liz Maverick
He rocked his erection against her, gently sucking and biting at her lips, the strain in his taut, muscular body matching the intensity in his eyes. Vienna smiled seductively up at him, goading him on even as he worked hard to hold out.
She didn’t want either of them to hold out. She moved her hips and his cock brushed against her very core, an electric sensation that had her begging him to take her.
But Michael was intent on paying her body every possible attention. Touching, tasting, teasing, he moved down her body, pressing his mouth against her breasts, her stomach, flicking his tongue against the slit of her wet cunt.
Vienna gasped. Then, cupping her breasts and writhing beneath him while she played with her nipples, she drove Michael to the edge along with her.
It was all he could take. Rising up, he slid his cock inside her. Vienna closed her eyes, reveling in the sensation of being filled by him.
Michael began to move again, his mouth hot against hers, his tongue mimicking the rhythm of their bodies. Vienna arched into his thrusts. She shifted her hand down to where their bodies joined, sliding her fingers up and down the top of his shaft as he moved in and out of her in a slick, sensual haze.
Whispering his desire into her ear, Vienna’s body tightened around his cock. They both reacted with a cry of ecstasy, and any sense of control began spiraling away.
He slowed his rhythm, pulled back slightly, and then thrust hard. Vienna moaned, expecting more, but he’d stilled and the anticipation was almost as delicious as the sensation itself.
“Again,” she whispered. He thrust hard once more.
“And again!”
A sound of pure rapture escaped from his mouth as he thrust roughly into her for a third time.
Gripping his shoulders, Vienna nearly came off the bed at climax as the waves of sheer pleasure moved through her. She cried out Michael’s name and he just reared up, emptying himself into her with a long, shuddering release.
For a while as they lay there together, all she knew was the sound and sensation of his heartbeat dancing with hers.
“Vienna?”
“Mmm?”
“So…in case you’re still wondering, that’s how I really feel.”
“Well, I’ve felt that from you before,” she teased.
“You know what I mean. I’m in love with you.” He sat up, pulling Vienna with him and cradling her against his chest. “Look, there’s a passport in the top drawer of the bedside table. You’re good to go if you like. You’re free. The choice is yours.”
She stared at him. “You’re letting me go? Officially?”
He nodded. “Of course.”
“Does Devlin know?”
Michael burst out laughing. “Let’s just say that I paid him the courtesy of telling him what I was doing.”
Vienna sat back against the headboard and smiled. “You’re letting me go. You’re really letting me go.”
He kissed her neck, trailing his finger in a circle over her stomach. “Of course, going alone is just one option. I think two men moping around a mansion over broken hearts is a bit much, don’t you? You could…always take me with you.”
Vienna turned and pushed him down on the bed beneath her. “You’re an idiot, Michael.” She lay her body over his and tucked her head under his chin. “You’ve got to know I’ve been dying over you. I think it’s possible that I actually started to love you the first time we ever kissed. And here I thought it was just raw talent that got me through it.”
“Nobody should be discounting your raw talent.” Michael put his arms around her and pressed his lips to her hair. “Let’s go together, then. The two of us. We can take as much time as we like, leave the business behind for a while.”
Vienna closed her eyes and smiled to herself as Michael pulled her in even closer. “The two of us…as much time as we like. Perfect.”
Just like she always said, in the end it all came down to two things: Numbers. And time.
About the Author
Award-winning, bestselling author Liz Maverick is an odd jobs specialist whose contract assignments have taken her from driving trucks in Antarctica to working behind the scenes on reality TV shows in Hollywood. She holds a BS in business administration from UC Berkeley and an MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship from UCLA. Be sure to stop by Liz’s website at www.lizmaverick.com for the latest information about her work.
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Credits
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Cover photograph by Jan Cobb
Copyright
This book is a collection of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the authors’ imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
IF THIS BED COULD TALK. “Agent Provocateur” copyright © 2006 by Elizabeth Edelstein. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Mobipocket Reader May 2006 ISBN 0-06-128399-1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maverick, Liz.
If this bed could talk / Liz Maverick, Kimberly Dean, and Lynn LaFleur.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Contents: Agent provocateur / Liz Maverick—Unrequited / Kimberly Dean—Victim of deception / Lynn LaFleur.
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-088536-6
ISBN-10: 0-06-088536-X
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