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‘Wouldn’t you?’ he questioned as he noticed the soft rise of colour washing over her cheekbones ‘That’s a pity Because ht now Maybe I’m bored with the people who always bow and scrape to me Who act like puppets and tell littered her a look ‘Because, you know, I rather enjoyed the way you reacted to me the other day’

‘Sir—’

‘I enjoyed the honesty hich you looked at er you clearly felt for ave yourself up to that kiss anduntold pleasure’

Her throat dried Hadn’t she been trying to put the memory from her mind ever since? ‘Sir—’

‘Why, if that infernal alarht have ended?’ His voice deepened, enjoying the way she was trying not to react to his verbal seduction ‘Except that we both know exactly where it would have ended, don’t we, Cathy?’

Please stop looking ather blood h her veins Making her stomach feel as if it wanted to dissolve and her skin treled to find so which caled little sound which was barely comprehensible ‘I—’

‘And there’s nothing I hate more than unfinished business,’ he ain, don’t you? Kiss ’

His words both shocked and excited her but Cathy could feel her body thrilling in eager response to the way he was looking at her Wanting to feel the warainst hers once ?

Xaviero’s eyes narrowed, her hesitation surprising him as he reached out his hand and touched the s to ask twice before ‘Unless there is so us? Some commitment you have made to another ance of someone who knew that there was not another ht of his oishes The Prince’s desire overrode anything The only thing was that ht have to wait…and he did not want to wait—not when his appetite felt so exquisitely and unexpectedly sharpened

Cathy shook her head—her pulse racing erratically How could she think straight when he was looking at her like that? ‘No There isn’t’ She bit her lip as she remembered the sense of aloneness and rejection which had flooded through her on receipt of Peter’s letter ‘There was…there was soed to be married, but…but…’

‘But what?’ proet this one last obstacle out of the way

‘He…he…well, it’s over’

Xaviero allowed himself a brief smile of satisfaction Perfect Absolutely perfect A fiancé meant that she was experienced—but that she had been faithful, too Had the man broken her heart? he wondered idly And if that were the case—couldn’t he, Xaviero, show her that there was life after the end of a love affair? And that she could enjoy the caresses of another man…

He traced the outline of her quivering lips aletting the very best and yet the very worst of a postfiancé lover Because he was undoubtedly the finest lover she would ever know—but she would spend her whole life searching fruitlessly for a man to equal him

‘So let’s make love,’ he said simply

‘Your Highness!’ she breathed, even though she realised that her protest lacked any real conviction The look of intent which had darkened his golden eyes was just too beguiling—the expectation that he was about to hold her too tantalising to resist And the sense of burning hunger in her e she had ever experienced before Should she stop him? Shouldn’t she even try?

She would never know Because noas pulling her into his arms with a smile on his lips whichsensations he’d awoken in her the other day Half-heartedly Cathy twisted in his arh and she quickly realised why—as she collided with a rock-hard and very forroin She felt thefizz of her blood—her body blindly reacting to the sweet sensation of his touch