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appreciative groan rumbled through both of their bodies, and this time when he kissed her he held nothing back. His hands held her face steady as he branded her with his mouth, a crazy hot kiss that left Marla reeling. More intimate than any sex she’d ever known, Gabe’s kiss laid him bare and vulnerable. His tongue stroked hers, learned her mouth inside and out until she dug her nails into his shoulders and murmured his name in shock. She’d waited forever to be kissed like that, and she hadn’t even known it. His skin was sun-warm beneath her fingers, and he snaked an impatient hand down between them to yank his T-shirt over his head, giving her unfettered access to his body.

Marla feasted her hands and her eyes. He was exquisite, all movie star shoulders and firm, golden skin with a fine smattering of dark hair that trailed down his chest. She dragged her dress straps down, desperate for the glide of his naked skin against her own. His mouth followed her hands, hot against her neck, damp across her collarbones.

Gabe caught hold of her wrist when she twisted an arm beneath herself. ‘I want to do that.’ He licked the dip between her breasts and unclipped her bra with one assured flick.

‘Jesus fucking Christ, Marla.’ He slid his thumbs over her nipples as he held her in the palms of his hands. Marla lost her head, caught up in him completely as he teased her with his mouth and his hands. She wound his hair around her fingers and held him against her, but he caught hold of her wrist for a second time when she moved to reach for the buttons on his jeans.

Heat gathered between her legs as he glanced up with his lazy, lopsided smile and shook his head. ‘Slow down. I’ve got one more birthday present for you first.’

She lifted her hips to help him as he tugged her rumpled white dress off and flung it aside, his tongue already on the curve of her stomach as he scooted down to kneel between her knees. He bent his head low, a silk ribbon of kisses along the edge of her knickers.

Marla sucked in a sharp breath as his fingers cupped her, lava hot and territorial. ‘Take them off, Gabe. Please. Take them off.’

He didn’t need to be asked twice, and what followed was hands down the most erotically intense few minutes of Marla’s life.

Gabe was tender and filthy dirty all at the same time. He explored her with his fingers and his tongue, building her up but never quite letting her fall over the edge. She felt rather than heard the incoherent sexy words he murmured as he licked her, magic vibrations, erotic electric shocks that lit her from the inside out. Marla arched, greedy to get more of her into his mouth, and Gabe read her signs well. He didn’t take his mouth away for a second as his fingers moved inside her, deeper each time until her only thought was now, now, now. He held her steady when she tensed and cried out, and soothed her with endless, barely there kisses until she unclenched her muscles and laughed low with spent appreciation.

‘Happy Birthday, Marla.’ His stubble grazed her inner thigh as he grinned. Marla loosened her grip on his hair as he nuzzled her skin.

‘Thank you. I think that was my favourite present of the day.’

Gabe slid up the length of her body and kissed her, the taste of her sex in his mouth, his forearms either side of her head on the stars and stripes. Desire kicked in again hard as his weight settled over her, his back silk and steel beneath her fingers as she committed his contours to memory.

‘Still hungry?’ He grazed her earlobe with his teeth.

‘Mmmm. Starving.’ She turned to look in his eyes. ‘Take your jeans off.’

He stood and stepped out of his clothes, uninhibited by her bold eyes. Not that he had any need to be shy. Marla bit her lip and stretched across to retrieve the condom she’d stashed in the basket.

‘I’m pretty sure I didn’t ask Eve to include this in the picnic.’ He raised his eyebrows as he took the foil packet from her and ripped it open.

‘No. That’s my own contribution.’

‘Siren.’

He reached for her again, and surprised approval flashed in his dark eyes when she rolled him onto his back and straddled his thighs. Marla gazed down at him, struck by his