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"It will solve ain I will no longer spend ht to sate"
"You haven't even kissedback to Greece" And it had worried her
What kind of courtship included not close physical contact? The kind where ato convince a woman he didn't really want to marry him, that's what kind
She realized she'd said the words aloud when a furious Greek curse assaulted her ears "You think I do not want you?"
Then he went off in a barrage of Greek, none of which e and none of the words he was saying
"Did I not show you in California how much I still wanted you? I put your health at risk because I could not keep my hands from your body, my lips from your mouth"
"Well, I' them to yourself"
"I did not wish to dishonor you again before e"
"A si to dishonor me," she said sarcastically
Really, he'd have to co better than that to convince her he was interested in her as a woman
“The love that would inevitably follow any kiss between the two of us would"
"A kiss doesn't have to end in sex"
"It does when a man wants a woman as much as I want you"
"Are you saying you physically desire ain until we're married?"
That was ridiculous He hadn'tlove to her before when they weren'tno promises of commitment either
"Take you, yineka "
Her feelings for him were primitive Primal even And they went too deep for her to ever extricate the
"You knohat I mean"
"I believe I do and you are correct The next time our bodies join, you will be my wife in name as well as spirit"
"What do you mean as well as spirit? I'm not your wife now You had me without commitment the first time and you made sure I knew it"
"I had decided to marry you by the time I was inside you"
He couldn't be serious
"That's not what you said the next "
"I went crazy the next s that should not have been said, but none of it changes the fact I married you in my heart when I made your body one with mine"
If he spoke the truth and he had no reason to lie, he'd ht She hadn't asked hi explained the strength of his response to his oisted logic the following utted by his conclusions as she had been
"How er will you be in Athens?" she asked, incapable of responding to his claims, but moved by them all the same
He sighed "I do not know"
Her heart sank "Oh"
"You sound disappointed"
"I am"
A pregnant silence greeted her honesty
"It doesn't mat—"
He didn't let her finish the lie "You could come to the apartment"
The invitation shocked her, even though it shouldn't have
"Of course you would not wish to come," he said before she could even open her ?"
"You're wrong," she slotted in before he could go off on another one of his negative assumption scenarios