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  They practically ran to Evan’s cabin. He’d barely slammed the door before she had one hand down his pants and the other ripping his shirt off.

  “I want inside you. Now,” he panted against her neck while his hands busied themselves removing her shoes, pants and underwear.

  “I need you inside me just as badly, Evan. Now. No teasing. Please just fuck me.” The word somehow rolled off her lips naturally as she tightened her hand around his hard erection.

  His lips slammed down to cover hers, devouring her in a whirlpool of need. Vaguely Sonia heard the crinkle of plastic, then Evan picked her up and turned her around until her back pressed against the door.

  “Hard and fast, love.” His hot breath against her ear sent shivers chasing through her body. “Later we’ll play.”

  “Yes, yes, yes…please now,” Sonia pleaded, desperate to feel his cock heavy and thick inside her, filling her aching body in a way only he could. “Fuck me, Evan, hard and deep.”

  He did. With one hard thrust his cock sank balls-deep inside her. “Evan!” she screamed, needing more.

  “Wrap your legs around me,” he demanded then took her legs in his hands to place them around his lean hips. “Now hold on.”

  Nothing but Evan existed in her mind. Evan and his deliciously thick cock pounding into her, deeper, harder and faster than he’d ever taken her before.

  And still Sonia wanted more. “Harder,” she cried, digging her nails into his sweat-slick shoulders. “Now, now, now.”

  Sweat dripped from his forehead as one hand left her ass and grabbed her hair to yank her head back. “Look at me,” he growled, his raspy voice heavy with need.

  Sonia heard him through the haze of her own desire and somehow forced her lids open. The molten glow from his brown eyes made her pussy clench.

  “Shit, Sonia, don’t do that,” he pleaded and growled all at once while his thrusts increased in speed and power. “I won’t last.”

  But she wanted to break through his wall of reserve and make him lose control so she did it again. She moaned at the hot, carnal feel of his hardness deep inside her body, scraping that one delicious spot over and over again until she forgot to breathe, forgot everything but the man who touched her as no one else ever had.

  Sonia didn’t notice that her eyes had drifted shut until Evan growled, his normal control a thing of the past. “Don’t look away. I want to watch you come. I want to see every expression in your eyes when your pussy clamps down on my cock. Watch you milk me dry.”

  And she did. Sonia was caught in the mesmerizing heat and need of his gaze. Even as she cried out and exploded around him her eyes never left his. So she saw the look of absolute surrender when he came, shouting out her name.

  Evan felt his knees buckle as his body floated back to earth. “Shit, I think I’m going to fall over.”

  Sonia uttered a weak and weary chuckle. “So much for a Rhett and Scarlet moment.”

  Two options floated into his sex-hazed brain, but one of them would require withdrawing from Sonia’s still grasping pussy. He immediately threw that one out.

  “Rhett was a loser,” Evan joked, trying to get his breath back. “If he’d played his cards right Scarlett would have happily wound herself around him.”

  “Hmm, you think so?” she murmured, tucking her head into the curve of his shoulder.

  “Hold on tight, love,” he warned her before moving his hands to clasp her wonderfully rounded ass. “Here we go.”

  He made short work of the walk that carried them from the door to the wide, neatly made bed waiting for them. With every step his dick grew harder, snug in the wet comfort of her wonderful pussy.

  “You can’t possibly…”

  “I tried to tell you,” he teased, freeing one arm to yank the covers back before kneeling on the bed with his curvy burden. “Anytime you’re around I get like this. Staying balls deep inside you twenty four/seven sounds like heaven to me.”

  They ended up on their sides facing each other. Evan hated the masks that kept them apart just as he hated hiding the truth from her. This would be their last night together, ever, unless he found the courage to do something about it. What if the truth sent her running from him…out of his life? He didn’t even want to consider that possibility.

  He skimmed his hands over the smooth softness of her skin, marveling at the satin feel and the sheer perfection kept hidden by her dowdy clothes. “I have a confession to make,” he whispered against her ear.

  “Go for it,” she muttered drowsily.

  Nerves had his stomach bouncing and his hands shaking. Everything until this moment had been a game of sorts. One designed to see beyond the mask she wore every day. To see if what he felt for her was purely sexual or had a deeper meaning. Until the moment he spied her across the room and knew his heart was lost to her forever. He’d been honest with everything except one small thing.

  With unsteady hands he removed her mask and pulled the blindfold over her eyes. Then he quickly yanked his own mask away.

  “What if I don’t want the blindfold?” Sonia grumbled, her tone still drowsy. “It’s not fair. You get to see my face but I don’t get to see yours.”

  “Just humor me, please.” He kept his voice light.

  Emotion overcame him as he lay there quietly beside her. He cradled her tightly in his arms lifting her chin up to kiss her satiny mouth. Hungry, predatory, possessive kisses that made him want to forget the world outside their door and just make love to her forever.

  But now he knew he wanted more than just tonight. He wanted forever with this special woman in his arms and the only way he could do that was to lay his heart on the line. And pray that she felt the same way about him once he confessed to his deceptive, seductive illusion.

  “You are the most beautiful, generous, smart and sexy woman I’ve ever met,” he told her. “I’ve wanted you for longer than you know. I love you, Sonia. Remember I’ll always love you.”

  And then he removed her blindfold.

  She blinked a few times in the dim light. Then her body stiffened in his possessive embrace. “What…Chase?”

  Sonia stared at the man currently holding her tightly in his arms as his cock continued to grow harder inside her body. The man she’d been in love with for years had just fucked her almost unconscious? And had been doing just that since the first night of the cruise? She pressed against his chest, but he didn’t move.

  “Chase, what’s going on here?”

  Quickly he dipped his head to capture her lips again, demanding and conquering her resistance with the touch and flavor of his mouth. When they came up for air Chase was on top of her, his cock still thrust deep inside her weeping pussy.

  “Please let me explain.”

  Now he was speaking in the voice she recognized and had fantasized about. Since her brain didn’t appear to be functioning, all she could do was nod.

  “Okay, I know this might look bad to you, but I had to see if this attraction I felt for you went just one way.” He blew out a deep breath and rested his weight on his elbows. “I’ve been in love with you since the first time I saw you, but you were so shy I hesitated to approach you. Once I’d gotten to know you better, there were always other people and somehow it turned into business meetings. I didn’t know how to approach you or tell you how I feel.”

  “But…”

  He touched his fingers to her lips. “I’m not finished. This was my last-ditch effort to find out if you felt anything for me. Tell me I haven’t made a mistake. Tell me what I feel each time we touch is real. What we have is real. I’ve never needed a woman so badly that I ached for her, but with you I can’t get enough. As soon as I come I want to start fucking you all over again.”

  He leaned down so their foreheads touched, fear, love and desire showing in his coffee-brown eyes. “I love you, Sonia. And yes, I cooked up this trip in a desperate attempt to see if you felt anything for me. You do, damn it. I know you have feelings for me too. You may not be ready t
o admit them, but I can feel them all the same. Every time you touch me, every time you look at me it’s there in your eyes. Please, love, give me—give us—a chance.”

  Sonia wanted everything at once. She wanted to wrap her arms around Chase and whisper of her love. She wanted to wind her legs around Chase and beg him to move that wonderful cock inside her. But most of all she wanted this moment never to end.

  “Chase, are you sure? I’m still just me.”

  “So long as you’re like this when we’re alone together,” he thrust hard into her eager pussy, “I like the other you just fine at work and in public. Remember, I fell in love with the person I saw at work, so you being you is more than enough. Like I told you before, I think you are the smartest, sexiest woman I’ve ever met. I don’t want to lose what we have. Please say you’ll give this a chance.”

  Sonia finally found her voice, the true voice of her heart. “I can’t believe we’ve been so stupid all these years. I’ve loved you from the minute I first walked into your office. You were so sexy and in charge. I had to go home afterward and change my underwear because you had me so wet. But I never thought you had any feelings for me. I wasn’t your normal skinny blonde eye candy.”

  Chase’s brown eyes brightened. “You love me?” His voice made it sound like a gift. And like a typical male ignored the rest of what she said.

  She reached up to brush his silky hair away from his face. “Of course I love you. I love you even more for arranging this cruise for us.” Her eyes slid away from his all too handsome face. How would she face reality now?

  “Love, what is it? If you love me half as much as I love you we can beat anything,” he promised while his hips circled and the pressure of his body teased at her clit.

  “Stop. I can’t think when you do that.”

  “Good. Stop thinking and listen to the man who loves you more than anything else in the universe. Those women I dated were for work. I needed a date for fundraisers, dinner parties and all the other crap I get dragged into. I thought you’d laugh me out of your office if I tried asking you. But honey, you’ve got to know there’s been no one else since we met. I tried, believe me I tried, but my cock only has an eye for you.”

  She laughed at his very bad humor. “That’s terrible, Chase.”

  He laughed with her. ”Yeah, I know, but sadly it’s true. You’re the only one I get hard around. Guess for once my heart and my dick agree. They both belong to you, Sonia, now and forever.”

  “Forever?” she held her breath, afraid to hope as she watched him scoot their still-joined bodies to the side of the bed. He fumbled open a drawer and pulled out a long black jewelers box.

  “Believe in me, believe in my love…now and forever.” Then he opened the box and held it out to her.

  Sonia felt tears gathering in her eyes. On a long gold chain lay a heart made of diamonds in a platinum setting, while rubies spelled out “I Love You” on one side and the back held their initials.

  “Happy Valentine’s Day, my love,” he whispered and placed the necklace around her throat.

  Tears fell down her cheeks as she grabbed him and held him tightly to her. “I love you so much, Chase…Evan…whoever you are.”

  “It’s Chase Evan Malone.” He grinned. “I had to have some kind of name. Now tonight we can really celebrate with no illusions between us.” He planted a light kiss on her stunned lips.

  “This trip is really just an illusion for everyone else, isn’t it?” It made her sad to think of all the hearts and promises that would be broken when the sun rose in the morning and the ship docked.

  “This trip may be a seductive illusion to everyone else, but it’s been very real to me. Who knows how many of these couples will even see each other after the ship docks, but I plan for us to be together forever.” He sealed his promise with a kiss that she knew was from his heart.

  “Forever may not be long enough for me to love you.” She locked her ankles at the small of his back.

  “Then we’ll have beyond forever and into eternity so long as you promise to keep loving me the way you do today.”

  Sonia smiled, her heart bursting with love for this wildly sexy man who risked everything to find love with her. “I’ll love you more tomorrow and even more the day after that.”

  “I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

  They laughed until passion overrode the laughter and their bodies moved as one, his cock buried deep inside her. They had become so tuned to each other that their orgasms exploded simultaneously, pulsations throbbing through both of them. At last they collapsed, exhausted.

  “I can’t wait to get you back to my place.” Chase nipped her ear while he slowly withdrew.

  “Why?” she panted, using her legs to try to pull him back in her desperate body.

  He waggled his eyebrows in a parody of evil. “’Cause, honey, there’s some really great toys I’ve been dying to try out on you.”

  “What toys?” She clenched her muscles tight at the thought.

  He leaned down and whispered in her ear.

  Sonia felt heat suffuse her entire face. “Butt plug? Chase, are you nuts?”

  To keep her mind on sensuous pleasures Chase sped up his movements. “Just wait, love, we’ve got more than illusion to go home to. We have love and each other. There’s nothing we can’t conquer.”

  “Shut up and make love to me, Chase,” she demanded.

  “Yes ma’am.”

  And he did.

  About the Author

  Desiree Holt: I always wonder what readers really want to know when I write one of these things. Getting to this point in my career has been an interesting journey. I’ve managed rock and roll bands and organized concerts. Been the only female on the sports staff of a university newspaper. Immersed myself in Nashville peddling a country singer. Lived in five different states. Married two very interesting but totally different men.

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