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“I’ve got a confession,” Maya said, keeping her gaze locked with his as she took hold of the bottom of her T-shirt.

“What?” he asked, staring at where she was lifting the shirt.

“I made the unfortunate decision of going for thermal underwear.” She pulled the T-shirt over her head to reveal a thermal vest, then stripped off her jeans to display the matching knickers.

Sam couldn’t help the laugh that escaped his mouth, and Maya jumped on him, knocking him back onto the bed to lie on top of him.

She grinned. “I hope you aren’t laughing at me, Leonard.”

He drew her into a kiss. “I’m laughing with you, not at you.”

Pouting, she let her hair shower over his face. She smelled like teenage dreams coming to fruition. “Are you saying my underwear isn’t sexy?”

Sam spun her onto her back, pinning her in place with his weight. “No, that’s not what I’m saying. You’d be sexy in a binbag.”

He leaned down to kiss her neck.

“I’d look rubbish in a binbag.”

Sam laughed hard at that pun, resting his face against her neck. This was already the most fun he’d had in bed in his life.

Lifting his head to meet her eyes, he slowly slid his hand under the vest, appreciating the raw desire displayed in her gaze.

“We’ve been here before,” he said softly.

Her dark eyes held his as he explored underneath, running his hand over the soft swell of her breasts and teasing the hardening peaks with his fingers.

Shifting his hand back down, he slipped his fingers under the waistband of her underwear, his heart pumping and sending wave after wave of heat into his core.

“But this is uncharted territory,” he whispered.

Sliding lower, he absorbed her intake of breath as he explored her soft folds, touching and teasing the sensitive mound of flesh beneath his fingers.

He forced himself to wait, biding his time until she let out that delicious moan, studying what to do in order to make her moan louder, more desperately. Then he brought her up to sit, dragging the vest and underwear off before easing her back.

She lay there below him, fully naked, and he paused to take in the sight of her soft, delectable curves in the silvery darkness. He’d pictured her naked a thousand times, but imagination had not lived up to reality. She was perfect, and he wanted to kiss every inch of her smooth, tawny-brown skin.

Maya bit her lip as he pulled off his top layer in one go, and he shot her a smile. “No thermals for me, I’m afraid.”

She ran a hand onto his chest. “I’ve been wanting to do this ever since I saw you at Kirsty’s.”

Her admitting that she’d wanted him as long as he had her only served to drive him wilder, and harder.

Maya let her fingers trail back down to the fastening of his jeans, undoing the button and the zip, then grazing over the material that bulged where he was straining against it. The exquisite ache of her touch was almost unbearable.

She pointed at his jeans. “Take those off.”

Nearly falling off the bed in the process, he did as he was told, then took up position straddling her as she leaned on her elbows, admiring him in only his underwear. Her appreciative gaze made Sam feel like he was about to leave said underwear without even using his hands, he was straining so hard against the cotton.

Maya gave him a slow smile. “I’ve seen all of this before. I want to see what’s under there.”

Swallowing against his dry throat, he slid a hand down to his waistband and eased the underwear off, one leg at a time. The removal of the fabric’s constraint did little to ease the ache. Then Maya reached out to take him in her hand, and pleasure pulsed into his core.

He leaned forward to plant a hand on the bed next to her head and grip the sheets, uttering a groan as she stroked him over and over. It didn’t take long for his already intense libido to become dangerously close to overwhelming, no doubt because it had been a long time for him. He couldn’t even remember the last time he’d had sex. But moreover, he couldn’t remember ever wanting someone this much.

Taking a calming breath, he took hold of her hand to halt her movements. “This is going to be over too soon if you keep that up.”

Maya reached out and brought his head down to hers, kissing him with such abandonment and longing that it took his breath away.