his touch was almost too much. Then he turned her back around until she faced him again, and slowly untied her chemise until it pulled free and joined his shirt on the floor.
She kissed the perimeter of his lips as he pulled the pins from her hair and ran his fingers through it until it fell cascading in raven waves over her shoulders.
"Beautiful," he murmured. She ran her hand over the coarse hair of his abdomen as he released his pants to join the pile of clothes on the floor. He stood wonderfully naked before her.
"Beautiful," she whispered in reply.
He pulled her to the bed, where he lay down and stretched out before her, confident and aroused. Then he pulled her on top of him. She positioned herself on him so that she could feel his hard manhood. As she bent to kiss him her hair curtained their faces. Her hands stroked and caressed his body in an expression of months' worth of fantasies. He shuddered in pleasure at her touch, reaching to fondle her full breasts that fell like ripe peaches above him. Then, with a motion as fluid and smooth as a choreographed dance, he rolled them over. He poised on his elbows above her and entered her moist, welcoming body and the two became one. Their shadows melded together against the pale wall behind them, the fading light filtering through the curtain enough to cast a shadow of passion and ecstasy.
Angelina opened her eyes long enough to look into the face of the man she loved and see the consumed look of passion on his face above her. As the surroundings faded away, and she was aware of nothing more than the two of them, and the passion that built inside her, she reached up and coiled the tiny lock of hair above his eye around her finger. With a final thrust they shuddered in completion and she uttered a cry of love perfected. He collapsed on top of her.
She encircled his moist, warm body with her arms and traced the firm outline of his back with her fingers. "I love you," she said very softly. Without thinking she reached to finger her necklace in a gesture of happiness and found only bare skin. She still expected it to be there, even after its long absence. Her instinctive action was not lost on Tonio.
"I almost forgot. I have a something that belongs to you." He rolled off her to the side of the bed and leaned over to fumble in the pile of clothing on the floor. He rolled back next to her and leaned up on his left elbow. He opened the fingers of his right hand. She caught the glisten of gold as he dropped a chain and caught it between two fingers. Her necklace bobbed from his fingers.
She reached out for it. "Please put it on me."
"Tomorrow." He reached over her and hung it on the bedpost behind her. "Tonight I want nothing but the feel of you."
He settled back down beside her. They lay in silence as she lightly traced his chest with her fingers, listening as his breathing became slow and regular and she was certain he was asleep.
A tiny shaft of moonlight filtered in through a crack in the curtain. As she followed it with her eye she caught a glint of gold. I'm an American woman now. Even you can't tell me what I can do, Tonio.
She reached up and pulled her necklace down from the bedpost and over her head until it lay softly between her naked breasts. Then she lay back down beside him and drifted off to sleep with one arm curled over him and a lock of his hair wrapped around her finger.
About the Author
Gina Robinson lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and family. She's the bestselling, award-winning author of The Spy Who Left Me. Gina is a longtime member of Romance Writers of America and a former Golden Heart finalist. She also belongs to International Thriller Writers. She writes humorous contemporary romantic suspense—what she likes to call spy romance, historical romance, historical romance, and fun, lighthearted women's fiction. Romantic Times has praised her novels, saying "Robinson delivers."
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Also by Gina Robinson
Historical Romance
The Last Honest Seamstress
The Union
The Agent Ex Series
The Spy Who Left Me
Diamonds Are Truly Forever
Live and Let Love
License To Love, available Aug. 27, 2013
A Spylicious Romance Short Story Duet
And more spylicious romance
Spy Candy
Spy Games
Lipstick Spy School
Fun, flirty contemporary women's fiction
Pink Slipper
THE LAST HONEST SEAMSTRESS
Seattle in 1889 is a hard frontier town full of rough men and prostitutes who call themselves seamstresses.
SHE NEEDS A HUSBAND…
After too many business setbacks and unwanted marriage proposals, beautiful and ambitious Fayth Sheridan, a seamstress who actually sews for a living, desperately needs to find a husband of convenience. Now if she can only convince handsome sea captain Con O'Neill, the one man in Seattle who’s shown no interest in her, that he's the one…
HE NEEDS TO WIN HER LOVE…
When Seattle burns to the ground, taking Fayth's shop with it, Con vows to do anything to protect her. Even marrying her before she falls in love with him. When he's forced to make a deal with Seattle's notorious madam, he risks losing everything, including any chance at love with the last honest seamstress in Seattle.
THE UNION
Love is a dangerous deception
Gem, Idaho 1892
HE KNEW THE DANGERS OF GOING UNDERCOVER
After killing Irish union thug McCullough in self-defense and assuming his identity, private detective John Dietz is worried that his cover is blown. Sent to the Silver Valley to infiltrate the miner’s union and uncover their plans to blow up an important mine, he’s ready for anything. Except falling in love with the beautiful fiancée of the man he killed.
BUT FALLING IN LOVE WAS NEVER PART OF THE PLAN
Keely Byrne fell in love with her fiancé through the mail. Now seeing him in person, he’s even more attractive and sexy than she imagined. But as Keely gets to know him, and falls more deeply in love she wonders if he really is who he claims to be. And as tension and danger explode all around them she hopes their love can survive the union.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
About the Author
Books by Gina
The Last Honest Seamstress
The Union