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She was naked—coazed down at her Incapable ofhis eyes feast on the incredible beauty of her naked body She was everything he’d known she would be—everything and more Oh, so much more!

Her slender frame, the narroaist, the perfect contours, the sweet lushness of her breasts, bared now for hi legs, her loosening thighs

Then with a sudden own She did not even remark when he dropped it to the floor—her eyes were only for hi froown that had done its job so well—had made her aware of her own beauty, of how precious it was to her, to hier necessary

Nothing was needed no they had everything they wanted They had the silken couch, the night sky, the warmth of the desert, the silence and the darkness, the stars their only witness

They had each other

It was all that he wanted now All he had wanted from the first moment he had set eyes on her This exquisitely beautiful wo him so much

Offering hiift that he had waited so many months to claim

Herself

She was his at last The ice one for ever His self-control, his self-denial was finally needed no longer and she wasfire at his touch, his kiss, his absolute caress

With a sense of absolute liberty he lowered hiolden hair from her forehead Gazed down at her with a look that told her everything she needed to know, that sent the blood flushing through her, hot and urgent

‘And now,’ said Nikos as he started to lower his mouth, his voice rich with anticipation, satisfaction, ‘we can begin our wedding night’

CHAPTER SEVEN

THE SUN WAS RISING, swelling over the ri the stars one by one by one Rose-gold lit up the horizon, a long, rich line of colour as the sky above turned to azure blue

In Nikos’s arms, Diana slept—as he slept in hers Her head and torso rested on his chest, that strong, ht as if she were feathers drifting frole And around her waist his arloried in, holding her to hi, late reaches of the night

A wedding night that had burned hot as the distant stars whose light had illu in passion, in desire, in endless, boundless need and satiation Her voice had cried out tiher with an ecstasy that had ripped herthe them as if they were one body, one flesh They had clasped each other, their tangled limbs impossible to separate