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‘Need a h and crossed towards her He rested his hand on her neck and kneaded it gently with his fingertips

It was a casual gesture, lasting only a few ht of his large hand on her napesoers into her skin, the brush of his hand against the loosened tendrils of her hair caught into its habitual chignonso that made her feel suddenly weak Breathless

‘Better?’ he murmured, and she realised that somehow he seemed to have stepped close to her, so that he stood just behind her Close—so close

Despite her frozena wash of intense relaxation easing through her—an impulse to roll her head forward and let free the low moan in her throat as she succu at her neck

Seductive?

With a scraether, made herself shake her head Seductive? Was she ?

She took a step away, freeing herself, and turned towards hihtly ‘Thank you’

She headed towards her bedrooht now

‘I’ to freshen up, thenat this time of day’

Chattering brightly, she didn’t look at hiot inside her bedroom She felt breathless Determinedly, she inhaled This had to stop All this nonsense with hersuch a fuss just because Nikos touched her He hadn’tseductive, for heaven’s sake

Yet a few ing like rainfall

over her body, sluicing over her shoulders, her breasts, down over her flanks and legs, she felt a kind of restlessness inside her An awareness of her own flesh and blood that was as rare as it was disturbing As she s her hands along her arms, her shoulders, her breasts and abdomen, there was a kind of sensuality about it

As if it were not her own hands running over her body

For one vivid, overpoweringbeside her in the stea over both of the her, his hands on her body, soothing, easing, s her towards hi her to him

She cut off the water Furious with herself What on earth was she thinking of? Nikos o but he wasn’t her husband in anything but name It was totally out of order to think of him in any other way