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‘How can I make love to you?’ Ethan demanded ‘How?’ he repeated with the same passion Savannah had shown him, and when she didn’t reply he cupped her chin to make her look at him

‘The usual way?’ she suggested softly, and because she loved hihost of a smile ‘Just don’t look to me for any pointers’

Ethan thought her so cosseted and protected she couldn’t tolerate anything that wasn’t perfect, when nothing could be further from the truth, Savannah realised as he stripped off his clothes ‘You thinkdresses, lace and perfuainst it ‘I was brought up on a fararees, and that’s where I’ve always been happiest I can take reality, Ethan, in rather large doses’

‘So reality like this doesn’t trouble you?’ Ethan wiped one hand roughly down the scars on his chest

‘Please don’t insultwith the need to wrench the deainst his chest, she kissed her way slowly across it

‘Don’t,’ Ethan said, tensing, but she wouldn’t stop, and finally he dragged her to him

Those scars, terrible though they were, didn’t even begin to scratch the edges of his power Ethan was like a gladiator in so, wounded but triu with more sex appeal than that But inside his heart there was nothing, Savannah’s tender inner-self warned her Yes, she answered back, Ethan’s heart was cold, but she had to hope that in time her love would war up at him

‘I want you too…more than you know’ And that was true, Ethan realised as he teased Savannah with al and vulnerable, and he would never hurt her And maybe her innocence was the last hope he had to heal those scars he couldn’t reach

‘So, are you co his hand, she sank back on the pillows and threw back the covers ‘Don’t be shy’

He laughed She was so funny and sweet She had stripped herself bare for hi she trusted him, and he would never betray that trust

As Savannah snuggled lower in the bed, waiting for Ethan, knowing hefears on a more practical level His size alone filled her with apprehension He must have sensed it, for as he stretched out on the bed at her side he said, ‘I think you’re nervous’

‘A little,’ she ads

‘There’s no need’ He stroked her ar anticipation, and as she looked into his eyes he promised, ‘I would never hurt you, Savannah’

How could he not? Ethan was so er than most men—plus he possessed the power and the stah to know that nature allowed for this sort of unlikely coupling, but she wondered now if in sos weren’t possible This ithout doubt an extreht be plumper than she wanted to be, but she was s soft about hie and hard

Expecting to be soothed and reassured, she was surprised when Ethan moved so quickly to pin her beneath hihs, and she was cogestions in her ear that made her squirm with excitement