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‘Ethan?’ she pro his abstraction

‘I haven’t forgotten you,’ heher into his arms

Her clothes slipped away in sighs and s fears away as she clung to him, hidden from the world by the spread of his shoulders and the width of his chest She wasn’t even sure how she’d come to be naked, only that she was And she wasn’t embarrassed by that, because Ethan was there to take care of her, and everything he did or saidHe hadn’t even touched her inti with awareness, and she only kne it felt to soften and —for what, she hardly knew She had soto learn

Ethan carried her across the room to the bed and laid her down on it, where she rested with one arm above her head on a stack of pillows in an attitude of innocent seduction The linen felt cool and crisp against her raging skin, and she was lost in an erotic haze when she noticed Ethanme?’ She sat up

‘This is wrong’

‘What do you ”?’ She was bli

ssfully unaware of how nakedly provocative she was to hi about it?’ Now her cheeks were on fire ‘Do you still think I’ for you?’

‘Correct’ Ethan sounded relieved that she had given him an out ‘Get dressed, Savannah’

Grabbing his arm, she pushed her face in front of his ‘I won’t let you do this’

‘You have no choice’

‘No choice but to be humiliated?’ Her voice broke, but Ethan still shook hiht he had never seenificent Or more distant ‘Why?’ She opened her ar this tome here at all?’

Because he had thought et But the seeds of doubt had been planted deep inside him when his stepfather had assured hiain That e had been driven hooing to inflict that sa they were the answer to finishing this, he turned his back so she could see theh, but those on his back were truly horrific

‘What are you doing?’ she demanded ‘If you expect me to exclaim in horror, you’ll be disappointed These scars make no difference to the way I feel about you’

‘No difference?’

‘They don’t change what I feel about you in here’