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on her lips. Julia felt her breasts tighten in remembering the way he'd manipulated her nipples with soft pressure until they'd been erect with need.

'I can see why,' Julia said softly. 'If such pleasure was so readily available, I doubt anyone would get much of anything done.' She blushed at her own frankness and Paine laughed again, popping another slice of orange in her mouth.

'How is it that you are privy to such carnal knowledge?' Julia asked between bites.

'I shouldn't tell you.

master never shares his

secrets,' Paine flirted. 'But I can hardly have you walking around London thinking just anyone can do this.' He dribbled juice on her lips. She flicked her tongue across her lips to gather the juice and heard him groan at the action, a low throaty groan that had nothing to do with pain and everything to do with pleasure. It was a small, thrilling piece of power to think such a simple motion could affect a man of his experience.

He offered her a slice of orange dipped in ground sugar, sliding it into her open mouth and letting her suck the juice from it. She closed her eyes and sucked hard, wholly unaware at how the sight of her savouring the rare treat with abject delight was pushing the limits of Paine's restraint. His hand clenched in her hair.

She opened her eyes and looked up at him, recognising the intensity of the need mirrored in his gaze. He wanted her. His eyes said it. His body said it. She was sharply alert to the intimacy of his lap, the thinness of the silk fabric. She had only to turn her head slightly to

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encounter the full dimension of his rock-hard manhood.

Julia thought of the orange slice, of its slightly phallus-like shape, of

the juice from it. Would Paine like

that? The look in his eyes suggested he would. Hesitantly, Julia turned her head. She parted her lips and mouthed him through his trousers.

Paine gave a sharp gasp at the contact. She drew back, worried the idea wasn't to his after all.

'Don't stop, Julia, don't stop,' he pleaded, a gentle hand urging her head back to his straining member.

Julia was giddy with power. She sucked hard until made no effort to confine his satisfaction to groans, but gave full vent to his enjoyment with loud cries.

'Julia, pull it out, let me be in you.' He panted, close to his end.

Julia found the hidden slit in his trousers and pulled free the swollen member, slick with its own juices. Her hand clenched about its tip, revelling in what she had wrought. She reached over his head for the trifle box he'd used last night and rummaged quickly for a sheath.

'Now, straddle me, Julia.' Paine instructed, helping her to roll the thin sheath over his sex. 'Take me inside you and ride.'

Julia lowered herself on to him, exhaling in wonderment as she slid on him. He was so large, much larger than she'd thought last night. Yet he fit perfectly, filling up the space inside her. She began her motions and he joined her in a seamless rocking rhythm that teased her, then ultimately fulfilled her as she found the place she'd found last night, soaring in Paine's arms. He drew her

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down to him as he shuddered his own release, muffling his cries in her shoulder.

They lay together, their breathing slowing in unison as the initial power of climaxing ebbed. Julia wanted to stay clasped against him, warm and sated in his for

ever. Reality intruded. If she moved, breakfast would be over. She would have to go. But she no longer wanted to.

She wanted to stay. She wanted to feel this pleasure he'd awoken in her again and again. She didn't imagine such pleasure could be found with Oswalt. She fought a shudder. The horror of doing such intimate things with him escalated against the backdrop of what she'd shared with Paine

'Are you cold?' Paine reached for a throw to wrap about them, misinterpreting the reason for her shudder.

Julia searched for a way to prolong the moment, the minutes of their time together. 'You have not answered my question yet.'

Paine breathed into her hair sounding like a well contented man. 'There are studies, in India

that teach men and women about sexual congress. Each person has a different task, a different function in the act. There are such teachings in China as well.

Remember my cabinet with the yin and yang symbol?'

He shifted Julia to the side and wrapped an arm about her, warming to his subject. She waited for him to continue, her curiosity getting the better of her at the idea of such studies.

'In China, the man is the yin and the woman is the yang. It's the man's task, through lovemaking, to make

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the woman give up her essence, her yang, without losing his own yin to attain it. When a woman climaxes, her essence is surrendered.'

Julia punched him in the shoulder. 'That sounds completely arrogant and not so enjoyable for the man if he can't-what did you call it? Climax?' She tried out the new word.

'That's the whole point,' Paine instructed. 'Attaining a woman's yang without climaxing yourself makes you strong and it increases your life. It's the mark of a skilled male to be able to claim such disci-pline. There's tales of men being able to have congress with up to fourteen women before releasing their yin.'

Julia levered up on one arm and searched his face quizzically. 'Last night, and just now, did you, uh, steal my yang, as it were?' She'd felt that he'd held back nothing, as had she. It would be a private disappointment to learn she'd been cheated in a fashion.

Paine smiled. 'No, my enchantress. I gave up as much as I took.' Paine folded his arms behind his head.

'So you've taken my virginity and I've taken your immortality,' Julia said drily.

Paine chuckled. 'I suppose so, but chances are I was mortal already. Those are old teachings. Some say they go back to the third century before Christ. Since then, the Chinese have shifted their focus. They discovered that denying women the yin denied men their heirs. Now, the sexual teachings have been adapted to be more co-operative in their outcome, much more similar to India.'