Larger Than Life by Alison Kent (read the beginning after the end novel .txt) 📕

her to get to know more of Rabbit, to introduce her to Hank Smithson and the rest of his partners, whose names he'd rattled off and she couldn't for the life of her remember.

She pushed him onto his back and told him she'd like that. But not half as much as she'd like seeing him wearing something other than combat boots, T-shirts, and fatigues. He'd argued that she'd seen him in gray sweat shorts, and that she'd seen him in skin.

It wasn't enough. She wanted to see him in Hugo Boss or Armani. His broad shoulders filling out a custom-fitted suit coat. His eyes covered by Oakleys sans strap. His shaved head, goatee, mustache, and tattoo against the backdrop of St. Patrick's Cathedral. He told her no can do, changed it to might can do when she told him she was going to sleep.

Her cool cotton sheets absorbed his body heat like they did that from the sun when hung out to dry. She told him it seemed like she'd known him forever, not the less than two weeks that she had. He'd told her the Rocky Horror Picture Show claimed that time was fleeting, so she'd best stop counting and take advantage of his wood.

She'd slapped his ass, but then he'd tumbled her to her back and filled her in one never-ending motion. She'd taken him in, caught breathless by the sensation of loving him, his length and hardness and gentle touch, and always, always his warmth.

He'd stroked slowly; she'd pleaded for more, sweating beneath him, aching and needing and taut. He wouldn't let her come. And that was okay. She had more than all night. She had the rest of her days.

And she had the man above her, her own larger than life hero, to love.

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