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Chrissie had been in emotional turmoil before he’d touched her and once that physical connection was made, she couldn’t break it and she wrapped her ar that security Feverish kiss built on feverish kiss, stoking the fire fla at the heart of her only to increase the ache there

‘If you let rowled out that husky threat, staring down at her with coer you arouse in me’

Chrissie gazed up at hiht-hearted for the first time since Jaul had come back into her life He had not chosen to leave her: events had chosen for him He had not condoned his father’s interference and if he had been guilty ofher on the question of that money, she needed to remember holy married they had been and how vulnerable such ties could be in any untried relationship Did she now punish hi wanted to love and trust his only surviving parent? Although both Chrissie’s parents had hurt her and held views contrary to her own, she had still loved them She,ran the need to love and trust a parent, she reasoned painfully With a fingertip, she traced the fullness of his sensual lower lip and gloried in the stor in his innate passion

‘You don’t have to fight it any more,’ she told him softly

‘We’re not going to rush this, habibti,’ Jaul decreed, peeling off his shirt and depriving her of her breath in the same moment

‘Rush’ she urged, dry-mouthed, as he stripped with no more self-consciousness than a child But then he didn’t have a vain bone in his beautiful body, had absolutely no appreciation of the fact that he was a nised, her face war to kick off her shoes and run down the side zip on her dress Jaul was all sleek, lean muscle, honed by exercise, lines indented across his six-pack, the vee at his hips rising out of the waistband of his boxers and dissected by the silky furrow of black hair that trailed down to the jutting hardness at his crotch

‘I rushed the last timeyou walked out on me afterwards,’ he reminded her wryly

‘But not because you were anything less thanerperfect,’ Chrissie framed in a rush of candour ‘But because I was all mixed up and I felt even worse after you presented ned—’

‘That’s in the pastleave it there,’ Jaul urged ‘We’rea new start’

A new start Disconcertingly, Chrissie found herself savouring that declaration He didn’t want the divorce He wanted theether There was nothing wrong with that as an aspiration, was there? How could she fault hio of the past, could she toofuture? Why shouldn’t she try? Why shouldn’t she give their e another chance? What did she have to lose?

‘A new start?’ she repeated unevenly

‘We’re together again with our children What could be more natural?’ Jaul positively purred as he strolled towards the bed like a glossy prowling panther

It did feel so natural to be with Jaul again, Chrissie acknowledged, studying his lean, extravagantly good-looking features while arrows of piercing heat surged through her in an intoxicating wave that left her boneless No matter what he believed about her character, Jaul still wanted her, but then he had alanted her and that was, at the very least, a foundation for the future

Jaul feasted his eyes on her ‘Come here We only have onefar toocloser to lift the hem of her dress and flip it deftly up over her head

Chrissie earainst her flushed complexion He unclasped her bra and tossed it aside ‘I want to look at you’

Her breathing rupturing in her throat, Chrissie fought an instinctive urge to cover herself and her colour heightened as she leant back against the pillows