Behind the Palace Walls
you be prepared for a thing you’d never experienced?
    Alexei pushed her legs open, teased her with hot kisses along the insides of her thighs—but when he spread her wide and touched her with his tongue, Paige couldn’t suppress the little scream that escaped. She thought she would literally fly apart.
    Her entire body was on fire. Her hair tingled. And Alexei’s mouth did things to her that no man had ever done. She wanted it to last forever—
    But it was over in a matter of seconds as her body reached an impossibly high peak, and then dove into a free fall. Paige cried out, gasping and sobbing for breath during the long journey to the bottom.
    The experience was intense, amazing, far more than she’d ever dreamed.
    Yet still it wasn’t over.
    She thought Alexei would enter her body now, but he brought her to the peak once more with his mouth, and, when she thought she couldn’t possibly take any more, he did it a third time.
    She was wrung-out, sated, her body quivering with pleasure—and still she craved more.
    “Please, Alexei,” she said as he moved away from her. “Don’t go.”
    His laugh was deep, sexy. “I’m not leaving, Paige. Not for a long time.”
    He reached into the table beside the bed, and then he was rolling on a condom and settling himself over top of her. She wrapped her legs around him, knowing instinctively that this was what she was supposed to do. He kissed her sweetly while he entered her body, moving forward on a long, slow glide that made her moan.
    The pleasure took her breath away, even while the size and feel of him was almost too much. There was a moment of pain, a sharp sensation of tearing—and then he was inside her fully, his body throbbing in the very core of her.
    “You should have told me,” he gasped out.
    When she opened her eyes, the expression on his face tore her heart in two. He looked lost, alone—confused, as if he’d expected one thing and gotten another.
    Paige’s heart dropped. “Told you what? Have I done something wrong?”
    “You’re a virgin.” He seemed angry, intense.
    Shock momentarily stole her voice. “I can’t be.”
    He groaned as she moved beneath him. “Trust me, you are. Were.”
    “I’ve been with one man. He, um…” She could feel her face turning red as she struggled to say it. “He barely started before he was finished.”
    Meaning he’d started to enter her body, and then stiffened as his climax hit him. Her first sexual experience had been over before it ever really began. Which meant he’d not taken her virginity as she’d always thought. He’d only started the job. Alexei had just now completed it.
    Alexei’s expression changed, grew fierce suddenly. But it wasn’t the kind of fierce that scared her. Or at least not in a bad way. No, it was an intense, possessive, determined kind of look that said he wasn’t about to quit until they were completely, thoroughly finished.
    “My God, Paige,” he said. “Just when I think you cannot surprise me any more than you already have.”
    His mouth came down on hers, hot, possessive. She relaxed into his kiss for only a moment before he set her body on fire with his own. He was gloriously hard, moving, his body showing no signs of being done.
    Her heart soared. This was really happening, they were really making love—it wasn’t going to end with him apologizing, grabbing his clothes, leaving her alone and wondering what the hell had just happened.
    She couldn’t think of anything but him as the wave caught her and tossed her higher than she’d ever been.
    She learned very quickly how to shift her hips up to meet him, how to open herself to him, and how to prolong her pleasure and stave off the inevitable—but only for so long, because Alexei was relentless, driving her toward a completion more intense than any she’d experienced before now.
    When her orgasm hit her this time, she couldn’t hold back the scream that had pooled at the base of her throat. Vaguely she was

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