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  I bit the inside of my check, fighting pain as I watched his face.

  Truthfully... his words turned me on.

  I also couldn’t make myself believe them.

  It had to be something to do with this seer thing... with whatever the hell was going on with us right now. He wasn’t thinking clearly. He couldn’t be. What he’d said made absolutely no sense otherwise, given how new this thing was between us. Even though in some ways I felt he knew me better than anyone, in reality, we’d only known one another a short time.

  We’d been sleeping together for a week.

  Somehow, thinking about that, remembering that, my mind cleared.

  We didn’t know one another that well... not really.

  Meaning in the normal, couple-sense of things.

  No rational thought lived there for me yet, either, but I found myself doing everything in my power to hide my reactions from him, to keep him from feeling any part of them. I must have succeeded, because seconds later, he’d shut down on the subject, too.

  I felt sex on him alone after that, along with zero willingness to talk, or to think... or to feel any of what had bothered him earlier.

  A part of me wanted to do as he asked in that, too.

  Another part of me hurt, feeling him close.

  The fact that he was lying under me, sweating as he slammed up into me, definitely didn’t help with either thing. I stared down at his face, trying to make sense of his expression, but all I saw was sex-pain there now. I tried one last time.

  “Black... maybe we should talk about this...?”

  He arched up into me again, harder, gasping.

  Pleasure exploded through him, and then through me––so much of it that my mind blanked. Then he was pulling on me in that way he had, enveloping me in that more heated wanting. He dragged me out of myself, into some part of him, out of any last semblance of rationality.

  I lost myself there, and after awhile, I forgot what I’d been holding onto so tightly.

  I forgot what I’d so badly wanted to ask him.

  At least a few hours passed before my mind would return to the question again.

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  “BLACK CHRISTMAS”

  A Quentin Black Christmas Story

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  A sexy short from the Quentin Black Mystery series

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  2015

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