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her so badly.
    “I just never thought you were the kind of man to watch soap operas.” Bridie smiled at him.
    James was mesmerized by it. “ Bridie .”
    “Yes James?”
    “Come with me. Just be with me. We can talk or—”
    Bridie interrupted his words. “I want to touch you. I want to taste you. I don’t want to waste any more time.”
    James lifted her hand palm to her mouth and kissed the soft skin. “Thank you.”
    * * * * *
    They barely got through the door of his hotel room before their lips met and their hands were pulling at each other’s clothes. It had been the longest ten-minute drive that Bridie had ever experienced. Nothing but pleasantries passed their lips and for one moment she thought she’d made the biggest mistake linking her life, in a matter of words, to a stranger’s. But then, as they got out of the car and James looked into her eyes and took her hand, Bridie knew it was no mistake. The passion she saw burned through to her heart.
    “I hate buttons,” she muttered between kisses as her hands moved down his shirt front. Bridie didn’t want to stop kissing James for too long as he was the most delectable treat she had ever tasted.
    “Yep, buttons are bad.” James mouth left hers as he pulled off her shirt. “Oh man…”
    He sounded like he was in pain. That was not good for her confidence. “Okay, I have cellulite and stuff and my stomach is not flat—”
    “Lace on breasts. It makes a man crazy.”
    Oh okay, this sounded like a good pain . “We wear bras for that reason you know.”
    “Take it off.”
    Since the moment she saw James, or maybe since she first spoke to him, she knew one day she would be naked with him. No fortune teller had to tell her that. But reality was quite different from the kismet stuff. “Um. They’re not perky.”
    “ Bridie .” James’ hands covered her lace-encased breasts.
    That felt so good. “Yes?”
    “I want to love you, not a simulated catwalk model. I want a real woman. I want my woman.”
    My woman. “You know all the best things to say.” Bridie reached around and unclasped her bra. When his hands cupped her bare breasts for the first times, Bridie choked back a sigh. No one had ever touched her so gently. “I wanted to ask you to do all sorts of stuff to me on e-mail.” As soon as she said it, Bridie realized how dumb that sounded.
    “That would have killed me,” James murmured his eyes on hers, his fingers teasing her nipples. “I was having enough trouble trying to keep my cock under control as it was.”
    “Really?” Bridie reached down to the front of his trousers. There it was, hard, long, stiff, perfect .
    “ Bridie ?” His eyes closed for a moment. “Keep doing that and you’re going to be flat on your back in a second.”
    “I don’t want to wait.” When James opened his eyes, she knew that was not an option. “I’ve waited forever for you.”
    “Strip.”
    “You too.” Their clothes hit the ground at a rapid pace. “Wow.” Bridie was mesmerized by the beauty of his body. Hard muscle, tanned skin, and a chest and stomach she wanted to lick right down to a large cock that she wanted buried inside her.
    “Wow good or wow bad?”
    “Wow as in I may never want to leave you. You’re beautiful, James.”
    He pulled her into his arms and kissed her. “I always wondered what this would feel like.”
    “Sex?” His cock felt so good against her stomach that she wanted to throw herself on the bed and open her legs wide in invitation. Bridie had no need for preliminaries. She had been ready for James since his first hello.
    “No,” he swatted her ass. “I mean to make love.”
    She pushed back from him. “Do you think we’re going too fast?” Please say no.
    “Way too slow.” James pulled away from her arms.
    Bridie felt naked without him. Being undressed was one thing, but when he was not in her arms she felt more vulnerable. “Where are you going?” She watched as he pulled out a long strip of condoms