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It was nearly enough to leave them both out of breath.

“I’ve got a lot of competition,” Tess said, picking the conversation back up where they’d left it.

“You’re way too beautiful to have competition,” he whispered against her neck, which resulted in her laughing throatily.

“I appreciate the compliment, even if we both know it’s a lie. And don’t heap another one on top.” She smiled as his mouth, already on its way to doing just that, closed itself. “If you start pretending like Victoria and the others aren’t all incredibly beautiful, then I won’t know if you’re telling the truth when you say thatI’malso that beautiful.”

“I didn’t say theyweren’tattractive,” he pointed out, lifting his hands so Tess could feel their heat against her collarbone.

“You’d be completely insane if you did,” Tess said, eyes shimmering with awareness of his plan.

“My sanity is intact, I promise.” So was his recently discovered daringness.

Vacationing for a few moments on her soft, warm skin, his hands lurched into motion. Fingertips as a vanguard, he slipped them under her top. Tess’s pulse accelerated rapidly as he plunged his hands into proper contact with her firm, voluptuous breasts. He kissed it, feeling the pounding excitement racing through her veins.

“So it is,” Tess whispered, sighing pleasurably as his fingertips brushed over her pert nipples.

As he worked his hands across her full breasts for the next few minutes, she shut her eyes. In response, he worked his lips up and down the side of her neck. Her gyrating hips began to match the rhythm of his hands as he kneaded her breasts. Other than a few soft sighs that fled her lips, neither of them said anything as their shared desire flourished.

Every time Liam’s heart battered his ribs as if it were hoping to escape his chest entirely, he felt the pulse all the way in his fingertips. Heat spilled through his veins, scouring every iota of cold in his body.Thiswas what he’d wanted for so, so long! Like a thrown object slowing as it reached the apex of its climb, it felt as inevitable as gravity that he’d finally get to have Tess.

As soon as he leaned into her just a bit more, she would sense he was ready for her to leave his lap. She wouldn’t need to move far, just enough for her to get on all fours. Within seconds, he’d have her pants down, followed by his. And then… a moment that he’d dreamed of for years would become his reality.

There was just one problem.

He now knew he wanted her to hear him say what he wanted. Obeying the trance of lust was all well and good—on another night. Tonight, for their first time together, he wanted her verbal confirmation as much as he did her physical confirmation.

“Tess,” he whispered hoarsely, nerves high but hopes higher.

“Yes?” she asked, though shemusthave known just by the hoarseness of his voice what he was about to say. Her eyes remained shut, and a slender smile of bliss sat upon her face.

“I want you.”

Her eyes crept open.

Beautiful. Wonderful. Exquisite.

“I know,” she whispered amorously. Their bodies continued to move in rhythm, though Liam barely felt the sensations flooding his fingertips and cock. His attention belonged solely to Tess’s voice, her captivating eyes, the lusciousness of her lips. And to the one answer that could transform his and Tess’s relationship forever.

It arrived just another moment later.

“I want you too,” Tess told him.

His Christmas miracle had come true.

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Not A Silent Night

There was one more wonderful reveal still to come. As Tess moved off his lap and stood, hands clutching and then drawing her top over her fine figure, she looked over her shoulder at him as she tossed it aside. He was far too preoccupied with the smooth river of skin that she’d just revealed to notice immediately. However, his eyes eventually raised enough to see the pride sparkling within the oasis of blue glancing at him. Tess nodded toward his erection with those wondrously beautiful eyes and smiled.

“By the way, it is a safe day, so you can cum inside if you want.”

The dumb nod he used to show that he’d heard her practically creaked like a door on rusty hinges. Tess’s smile only grew, and she wiggled her hips enticingly.

“Whenever you’re ready,” she purred contentedly.

He’d been ready from the moment he’d laid eyes on her. Shifting up to his knees, his lips soon scorched her lower back. He marked every smooth area that his mouth could find, inciting a delighted shiver from its owner. Wrapping his arms briefly around her waist, he continued pillaging his way across her back.