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No! Don’t go there! Not even in iination! Least of all that

He took a shuddering breath He’d been a rash and reckless fool to walk her back to her room—he should have resisted the teht quite yet Had wanted to prolong the evening with her Prolong it in a much more intimate way

No! He was heading down dangerous paths again

He clenched his jaw, exerting control over hi he’d allowed hi her with that all too brief and fleeting kiss It had taught him that any contact with her would be like a match to tinder That he must control himself, deny himself, until he had her all to himself

As he would tomorrow

Tohtthe start of their honeye, when she would be his

That low purring started up in hiht of the breathtakingly alluring woly soon now—be his entirely

And until then

He turned away, clicking shut the balcony doors and striding into his bedroo his cufflinks

His eyes glinted Until then the traditional re to be very necessary

He headed for the en-suite bathroom Time for a cold shower A very cold one

Rosalie gazed, enthralled, as the helicopter started its descent, feeling again the leap of pleasure she’d felt when Xandros had announced, just after their wedding thather to his private island for their honeymoon

She hadn’t thought they would have a honeye like theirs But then she had realised that, just as he wanted her to wear the fabulous dia and also, since the si, which had passed in a blur of Greek with an English translation for herself in a roo, so a honeymoon would be expected as well To show the world—show her father—that theirs was a proper e

And she knew she could be glad that it was to be on Kallistris On Xandros’s private island they wouldn’t be on view for anyone else to think it odd they weren’t all loved-up

Her eyes shadowed ht had beendifficult The understate hollow But in the sleepless hours that had followed she had come to terms with it She’d had to