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A savage light filled those golden depths He looked fierce, dark, like one of the warriors he had told her about, as if there was a well of soht fire inside of him that lit him from the inside out Power and confidence radiated from him in waves

Fear of soether to stop their shaking This was ridiculous She knew thishollow

“Zafir?” His name was an entreaty on her lips, a soft intonation As if she could ta to him like a second skin As if she could call forth that veneer of civilized sophistication that she’d always knoas only skin-deep

The hand in his hair with a towel stilled and he looked up at her A thoroughly possessive light glinted in his eyes as his gaze lingered over her brow, her nose and finally rested on her mouth

“Did I wake you?”

Clutching the voluround and stood up “No How long have you been back?”

Another rough tu into the corner “An hour,her look around, he said, “It’s almost dawn”

“It took so long?”

Powerful shoulders rose as he shrugged “Go back to sleep, Lauren”

She licked her lips to moisten them “No I’m fine” An infinitesimal shudder racked the tense line of his shoulders “You went for a swiht? You !”

“I needed to cool down”

Thatinto life a si fire

He was half-naked and she was drowning in silk and yet, she felt as if she was the one utterly bared to him

Reaching his, she stilled The skirts of her dress fluttered against his legs She thought his , but when she looked into his eyes, there was only that deeply disconcerting hunger again

He was just as still as she aiting for what, she had no idea

Breath hitching in her throat, she tried to s fro him for the first tie kind of intio okay?”