'No,' she agreed. 'I wouldn't. But only because I don't think it's the best environment to bring up a pack of kids.' He cupped her rump and lifted her until he was able to slide deep inside. She felt so good, so wet and warm and ready, that he groaned. God, how he'd missed her. 'A pack of kids? I thought we agreed on four?'
'Oh, yeah. So we did.'
Her grin was pure cheek as she wrapped her legs around him and pushed him deeper. He groaned, his whole body trembling with the effort to remain still. Which she certainly wasn't.
'You do realize twins run in my family,' she continued, rocking her body gently against his.
'You do realize if you keep doing what you're doing, in a matter of moments I'm not going to be able concentrate on anything you're saying.'
'You want me to stop?'
'Not really.'
'Good, because I wasn't intending to.'
'Wicked wench.'
'It's the company I keep.' Her eyes twinkled at him. 'Such a bad, bad man.'
'I never thought you'd be the type to fall for a bad man.'
'Neither did I. But I have. Hook, line, and sinker. There's no hope left for me now.'
'None at all,' he agreed. 'Because that bad man intends to keep teaching you wicked things for the rest of his life.'
'That sounds like a plan.'
He smiled and kissed her nose. 'So, we've discussed long term goals--what about short term?'
'Well, for the first hour or so, I plan to be ravished senseless, then I think we should drink some of that champagne before the ice melts. Then I think some more ravishing is in order.'
'Now that sounds like a plan to me,' he said and set about carrying it out.
THE END
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Keri Arthur is the author of six published novels for ImaJinn Books and is under contract for several more. Her first novel, Dancing with the Devil, was a finalist in the mainstream division of the 2002 Woman's Day/Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the
Year Award, and it was voted Best Vampire Novel in SimeGen's 2001 Reviewers Choice
Awards. Her second novel, Circle of Fire, was nominated in the Best Contemporary
Paranormal category of the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Awards and was voted Best
Fantasy Novel in SimeGen's 2002 Reviewers Choice Awards. Her work has also made the finals of the Random House Australia George Turner Prize, and the Washington Romance
Writers 'Novel Beginnings' Contest. She is the current president of the Melbourne
Romance Writers Guild and the current Vice President and Secretary of Romance Writers of Australia. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband and daughter.
OTHER BOOKS BY KERI ARTHUR
Nikki & Michael Series
Dancing with the Devil
Hearts in Darkness
Chasing the Shadows
Damask Cir cle Series
Circle of Fire
Circle of Death
Circle of Desire (Coming in July 2003)
