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‘Or the inclination to even try?’ she challenged

‘Maybe not,’ he ad question in her green eyes

Sienna nodded, forcing herself to voice the bitter truth She had allowed passion to cloud her vision, but now that passion had passed it was achingly clear ‘You see wo pleasure but little else, other than reat yearning as she realised that Hashiory Not in a raphed in that way, a woman who had fallen oh-so-easily into his ar sense of longing for so she could never have washed over her in a bitter tide

He could feel her retreating from him—not just mentally, but physically, too, and that reawakened the desire which had been obscured by his startling discovery He was used to calling the shots, and by rights he should have been the one to distance himself from her now Or not

‘Ah, Sienna,’ he murmured, and reached out his hand to cradle her face ‘What is done is done Is it not a little late in the day for words of recrimination?’

Involuntarily Sienna trembled—for the touch of his skin was soft and warm and exquisite to behold It had the power to lure her back into that place of uniinable pleasure But at what cost? She shook his hand away and sat up

‘Yes, you’re right, it is I should have said all this before’

‘But you could not!’ he breathed triumphantly ‘For you were as much in thrall to me as I to you! What just happened between us was as inevitable as the passing of night through to day I knew that’

‘Well, we’re all entitled toti very soon and I suggest that we both of us try to tidy up’ She reached up her hand to feel the bird’s nestto tame it down

She was surprised that he wasn’t leaping around fretting He hadn’t once uests would be upon the into her thoughts like slow poison—so which in its as almost as bad as what she had just let happen She could feel the heavy pluly sharp focus

Oh, no

How could she have been so stupid?