Page 104 of Outback Secrets

‘What?! Does Frankie know? How can you—’

Liam snorted and the penny dropped.

‘Oh my God.’ She thumped her hand against his chest. ‘Was anything you told me true?’

He pressed his lips against her cheek as he began to move his finger again. ‘As much as I like you, Henrietta, I too am a vault.’

‘Beast!’ She tried to ignore the warmth that flooded her at his confession that he liked her as she remembered the conversation on the beach this afternoon. ‘Just tell me one thing—do you know who the mysterious benefactor is?’

‘To be honest …’ Liam began. ‘I’m not really comfortable talking about other people while my fingers are deep inside you. Seems a little …’ He upped the pressure. ‘I don’t know … kinky?’

‘Sorry,’ Henri quipped, struggling to think straight herself now anyway. ‘I forget how bad men are at multitasking.’

‘Oh, I can multitask, Henrietta.’ He touched her in a spot that was almost impossible to ignore. ‘I just don’t want to.’

Then, in one swift move—for once forgetting to be gentle with her ankle—Liam yanked her shorts and knickers down her legs, positioned himself above her and thrust into her. Henri gasped and, in a matter of seconds, she could no longer remember what on earth they were talking about.

It was only once they were lying side by side, both staring at the ceiling, their chests heaving as they waited for their breath to return to normal, that they realised they’d forgotten the condom.

‘It’s okay,’ she assured him, ‘I’ll get the morning after pill.’