Pregnant With The Billionaire's Baby. Carol Marinelli

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      “I need more, Tino.”

      “Then I will give you more.” He was very good at that.

      “I’m not talking about sex.”

      He turned her to face him and lowered his head so his lips hovered above hers. “Let’s not talk at all.”

      Then he kissed her. He would show her that they were too right together to dismiss their relationship because it wasn’t packaged in orange blossoms and meters of white tulle.

      She fought her own response. He could feel the tension in her, knew she wanted to resist, but though she might want to, she was as much a slave to their mutual attraction as he. Her body knew where it belonged. In his arms.

      But her brain was too active and she tore her lips from his. “No, Tino.”

      “Do not say no. Say rather, ‘Make love to me, Tino.’ This is what I wish to hear.”

      “We’re supposed to be exclusive.”

      “We are.”

      “You were willing to have a blind date with another woman, Tino.” She wrenched herself from his arms. “I cannot be okay with that.”

      “It was not a date.”

      She glared at him, but it was the light of betrayal in her eyes that cut him to the quick. “As good as.”

      “I did not consider it a date.”

      “But you knew your son and mother were matchmaking.”

      “I had no intention of being matched.”

      “But that’s changed. You said so. You said you would do anything for Gio, even give him a second mother—if she’s Sicilian.” The tone Faith spoke the last words with said how little she thought of his stance on the matter.

      “I said I was considering it, not that I had decided to date other women. You are all the woman I want right now.”

      “And tomorrow?”

      “And tomorrow.”

      “So, when does my sell-by date come into effect? Next week? Next month? Next year.”

      He wanted to grab her and hold on tight, but he laid gentle hands on her shoulders instead. “You do not have a sell-by date. Our relationship is not cut-and-dried like that.”

      “I won’t be with you if you’re going to date other women,” she repeated stubbornly.

      “I would not ask you to.”

      “What does that mean, Tino?”

      “It means you can trust me to be faithful while we are together. Just as I trust you.”

      Her eyes glistened suspiciously, sending shards of pain spiking through his gut. He did not want to see her cry. He kissed her, just once, oh so carefully, trying to put the tenderness and commitment—as limited as it might be—that he felt into the caress.

      “Let me make love to you.” He was pleading and he did not care.

      They needed each other tonight, not empty beds where regrets and memories would haunt the hours that should be for sleep. Or making love.

      “No more blind dates.”

      “It wasn’t—”

      But she shushed him with a finger to his lips. “It was. Or would have been. Don’t do it again.”

      “You have my word.” Then, because he could not help himself; because he needed it more than breathing or thinking or anything else, he once again kissed her.

      He poured his passion and his fear out in that kiss, molding their lips together in a primordial dance.

      At first she did not respond. She did not try to push him away, but she did not pull him closer, either. It was the only time in their relationship she had not fallen headfirst into passion with him.

      She was still thinking.

      He would fix that. Increasing the intensity of their kiss, he stormed her mouth, refusing to allow their mutual desire to remain a prisoner to circumstances that would not…could not…change. Bit by bit her instincts took over.

      And once her brain caught up to her body, she melted into him, ending her resistance and giving him access to the interior of her mouth at the same time. She tasted like the coffee laced heavily with rich cream and sweet sugar she had drunk after dinner. It was a flavor he had come to associate only with her.

      He drank his own coffee black unless he wanted an erection tenting his slacks—something that was more than inconvenient during his business day, but could be downright embarrassing. This, what they had, was beyond good. It was fantastic, and she would not end it. He could not let her.

      Tonight, he would remind her how well he knew her body, what he alone could do to it, how much pleasure he could give her. Her husband had not elicited those sensations in her, or she would not have acted so shocked by each new one when Tino and Faith had first begun their affair.

      She had been almost virginal, many of her reactions belying the existence of previous lovers, much less a husband.

      He refused to dwell on the sense of alarm he felt realizing the extent of his ignorance about her life. She’d been his son’s art teacher since before they met a year ago, and she had known his mother even longer. Yet Tino had been totally unaware of those facts. As unknowing as he had been about the reality of Faith’s widowhood.

      How had her husband died? She’d loved him, thought he was a special man.

      A primal need to erase memories of the other male from her drove Tino to deepen the kiss even further.

      Faith made a soft sound against his lips. He loved kissing her. Had from the very first. She was more responsive to his lips claiming hers than any woman he had ever known. And she was far from shyly submissive. She gave as good as she got, with a passion that turned him inside out.

      Damn. He wanted her.

      But not out here where someone might see what should be entirely private between two people. The temptation to once again make her his, right here under the stars, was strong however. He fought it, sweeping her up into his arms and carrying her inside.

      He went directly to his room, no thought of taking Faith anywhere else even entering his mind. This was his bedroom. His bed. And for now at least, she was his woman.

      The huge four-poster with wooden canopy had been used by his family for generations. Though the mattress and box springs were new—a pillow-top with extra coils imported from America on his younger brother’s recommendation. It had been a good piece of advice, for more than one reason.

      Not only was it incredibly comfortable, but giving up the mattress and even the bed linens he had shared with his wife had СКАЧАТЬ