Chapter 44

• Valerie stirred slowly into wakefulness, her mind emerging from the blissful cocoon of sleep in a languid, disoriented haze. The first sensation that registered was an utterly delicious full-body ache pulsing through every singly muscle and sinew. It was as if she had been thoroughly, exquisitely ravaged from the inside out.
• Which, a blinding blush instantly revealed, was likely an understatement of epic proportions.
• Fragmented memories of the previous night's ardent couplings came flooding back in a heated torrent - Michael's scorching mouth branding searing devotions along every bare inch...the achingly tender glide of their joined bodies twining into one rapturous whole...the earth-shattering ecstasies she had never fathomed possible until surrendering herself fully to this virile, insatiable man's rapacious mastery.