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‘It’s always been there, Diana, right from the start That flame between us Oh, it was hardly visible at first—I know that—but I know, too, that you were not indifferent to ht have been unaware of it at a conscious level And, Diana’ his voice dropped ‘believe me, I was the very opposite of indifferent to you from the very moment I first saw you But it took the desert, Diana, to let that invisible flame that has always run between us flare into the incandescent fire that took us both’
He strode around the table Clasped his hands around her shoulders Gazed down into her face Her taut and stricken face He ached to kiss her, to sweep her up into his arms and soothe the panic from her, to melt it away in the fire of his desire—of her desire
‘We can’t deny what’s happened, and nor should we Why should we? We’reto our passion for each other? The passion you feel as strongly as I do As powerfully As irresistibly’
His voice was low, histo hers He saw her eyelids flutter, saw a look almost of despair in them, but heexcept the soft exquisite velvet of her lips
He drew her to hi the shape of her head, holding her for his kiss—a kiss that was long and languorous, sensual and seductive He felt the relief of having her in his arht It was a kiss to melt away her panic, her fears To soothe her back into his embrace
He heard the low moan in her throat that betokened, as he no, the onset of her own arousal—an arousal he kneell how to draw from her, to enhance with every skilled and silken touch His hand slid from her shoulder to close his over her breast, which ripened at his touch, the coral peak straining beneath his gentle, sensuous kneading He groaned low in his chest, feeling his own arousal surge Desire soared in him—and victory Victory over her fears, her anxieties He was ain, to take her fro, insensate
He would never let her be iain! In his arms he would melt away the last of her fears The ice maiden was never to return
He heard again that lowher hips against hi her kno much he desired her and how much she desired him
The low ain—and then, as her head suddenly rolled back, it beca
‘Nikos! No!’
He let her go instantly How could he hold her when she had denied him?
She was backing away, stu hi to get control of her eh her like sheet ht now
He talks of a flame between us as if that makes it better—it doesn’t! It erous! Just as I’ve feared all my life!
So whatever it took, however ently—she had to keep him at bay Had to!
‘I don’t want this,’ she said Her voice was thin, al, but she ain ‘What happened in the desert was aa mistake A mistake,’ she said bleakly