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wasn’t
some sort of fevered dream. A masturbatory hallucination. He’d never considered
she would want him like this.
    She stirred beside him and he
kissed her upturned mouth. Her eyes fluttered open.
    Sax rubbed the pad of his thumb
over her lips. “You take my breath away. I always figured you for such a
straitlaced girl. Thank you for trusting me. For giving yourself to me this
way.” He kissed her cheek and then kissed his way down the white expanse of her
throat. “I have wanted you like this from the moment I first saw you.”
    Maggie pushed him away and sat up
in bed, crossing her arms around herself. She wouldn’t look him in the eye.
    Oh hell. He hoped he didn’t push
for too much too fast.
    “I have really missed you,” he
admitted. He stroked her arm.
    Maggie turned, facing him though
she wouldn’t meet his eyes. From the way her teeth sank into her lower lip and
the firm set of her shoulders, he could tell she was confused by what they’d
done. Even though he knew she’d enjoyed herself. She’d been wet and willing and
had orgasmed for him.
    But at least she didn’t run
screaming like Allison.
    “I’ve really missed you too,” she
said finally. “Sax, I’ve never done anything like that.” She finally looked at
him.
    He nodded. “I know. When we first
met, you’d told me you weren’t very experienced.”
    She shook her head. “I spent all my
time in high school and college studying my ass off to get ahead. There were
only two men before you and both of those relationships were, uh, well—”
    “Vanilla?” he supplied dryly.
    “Very.”
    “And this wasn’t exactly full-on
kink.” He winked at her. After they’d slept together the first time, he’d
probed her a little for information on her sexual history. She had mentioned no
sort of kinks and he hadn’t pressed further, because it seemed to bother her.
Frankly, he’d been so in love with her, he hadn’t thought about the long-term
sexual issues they might face due to his fetishes. He just knew he’d fallen in
love with her.
    “Did it frighten you?”
    “Frighten?” She shook her head. She
gave a nervous little laugh. “No. That’s not the word for it. I enjoyed
myself.” He could see a blush creeping up her cheeks. “I think that’s maybe the
problem. I didn’t think I’d enjoy that sort of thing.”
    “Being taken like that?” he
prompted.
    She nodded. “But I trust you and
you gave me an out if I needed one.”
    “That’s called a safe word and I
would never do anything you didn’t like, or didn’t want.” He took a deep
breath. “I want it to be good for both of us and you seemed to be in the moment
with me.”
    “I was.”
    “Okay then. So don’t overanalyze
it. You liked what we did. I more than liked what we did. So, would you ever
consider trying other things with me?”
    She was quiet for a moment. Then
she nodded. “Yes, as long as we play with the safe word and I can stop if I
want.”
    He felt as if his heart would
burst. It was more than he could hope for, considering how badly he’d botched
this. “Fair enough, love.”
    Her expression turned stern. “And
here is a more pressing issue. Why didn’t you trust me enough to tell me about
all of this in the first place? I had no clue what was going on. The last month
we were together, we just sort of fell apart. We didn’t talk. We didn’t have
sex. You seemed so distant whenever I tried to talk it out.”
    He pulled back to rest on his
elbow. He felt like an ass for driving the wedge between them. “I’m sorry about
that, love. The blame for that is all mine. I was trying to find a way to tell
you, but I couldn’t. Frankly, I couldn’t bring myself to, couldn’t stand the
fallout.”
    She matched his pose, leaning on
one arm, lying across from him. “Why? Did you think I would freak out or run
away?”
    “Experience told me you would.” He
paused, considering, but then just decided to lay it all out for her. “My first
fiancée