THE PERFECT TEN (Boxed Set)

his mind completely to hers. Explicit, wild, unedited, savagely carnal. He opened the gates and let it all pour out, and suddenly he had no need of his hands to urge her onward.
    She reared back, guided his impossibly engorged cock to her entrance, then sank on him, impaling herself to the hilt with one screaming thrust. He gripped the bedclothes and felt the material shred beneath his fingers like tissue paper. And then — dear merciful God in heaven — then she was riding him. Wildly, recklessly, mindlessly, and he couldn’t tell her pleasure from his. The ascent was swift. Her orgasm took her with a force that carried him right along behind. When she collapsed on his chest, she trembled like an aspen.
    And so, God help him, did he.
     
    “Omigod, that was so … much.” She lay there, feeling as though she’d literally melted over his hard body like hot wax. A part of her wondered if she would ever be able to pull herself completely back together, or whether they were permanently merged.
    His hands caressed her butt. “Too much?”
    “Never!”
    A muffled laugh. Then, in a more serious tone, “Ainsley, I have to get up.”
    “Oh. The condom. Of course.”
    “That, too.”
    She pushed herself upward, intending to search his eyes, but her gaze never reached that far. It caught and held on his teeth. His very long, pointy teeth.
    “Nothing to worry about. Just a little post-coital reaction.”
    He rolled her to the side, easing out of her. She felt the loss like a physical ache, but she was too preoccupied with this new development to dwell on it.
    “I’m so sorry, Delano. You must be miserable. It’s all my fault.”
    He laughed. “Yeah, miserable. To think I was just twenty years away from the century marker in the abstinence competition, and you had to come along and ruin my record.”
    She smacked his shoulder. “You know what I mean.”
    “I know what you mean. And this is a momentary thing. It will subside quickly, I promise you.”
    “But—”
    “No buts. Compared to what we just did, it barely signifies. Now, don’t move,” he ordered. “I’ll be right back.”
    He rolled off the bed and headed for the bathroom. He was quick, but by the time he returned, she was already self-conscious enough to have gotten up and found her robe.
    “Suddenly shy, are we?”
    “No.” She lifted her chin. “We’re cold.”
    His low laughter sent a frisson skating over her skin.
    “You know better than to do that with me,” he said.
    Right. He could read her mind. “Okay, I’m feeling a little … strange.”
    His face sobered. “And I’m feeling like throwing you over my shoulder and hauling you off to my rooms so that after we finish making love, you’ll be there with me when dawn drives me into the day sleep.” His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed. “How’s that for strange?”
    It sounded wonderful. Incredible. Too good to be true. She wet her lips. “What? You’re not going back down to the lab?”
    He shrugged. “There are only a few hours left of the night anyway. And my concentration is not the best for what needs to be done.”
    She smiled. “Well, I guess you can take one night off. When’s the last time you played hooky?”
    He blinked. “I can’t remember.”
    Oh, Delano. “Then I’d say this is long overdue. And you do have a lot of lost time to make up for in the sex department…”
    Without a growl, he did exactly as he’d threatened, scooping her up into a fireman’s lift and bearing her off toward his suite of rooms.
    “Del! What if Eli sees?”
    His laugh vibrated through her body, and she savored it. How many times had he laughed tonight? This was the man who gave serious a whole new dimension.
    “Have you forgotten who donated the condoms?” His stride slowed. “Whoops, speaking of condoms, we left them in your room. I’ll drop you off and go back for them.”
    “No we didn’t.”
    They’d reached his room and he deposited her back on her feet. She pulled a handful of wrapped condoms from the pocket of her robe. “See?”
    “All nine of them?” He laughed, closing the bedroom door behind them. “My recuperative powers are formidable, but that might be a challenge even for me.”
    Man, he was deadly when he smiled like that. Not that he wasn’t smolderingly gorgeous when he brooded, but this laughing Delano made her heart overflow.
    She smiled past the ache of happiness in her chest. “Right now, I think I could be happy just looking at