9 Alice gave a hoarse bark of laughter when Aeric pulled her sweat-slicked body against his. Her back lay to his front, and he took full advantage. He nuzzled her neck, teasing her with the prickle of his five o’clock shadow as his lips moved across her skin. Her breasts tightened as heat spread low in her body, though she’d only just orgasmed a handful of minutes before. “How can you be ready to go again?” she asked, biting her lip. She’d stripped that tux off him just as she planned, and then they’d gone several rounds. Now it was nearly daybreak, and he’d thoroughly exhausted her… not that she wasn’t interested. “I can’t seem to help it,” he murmured against her nape. “I think I gave up on ever having this, having a connection with someone the way I feel with you. It unnerves me, but

