Chapter 121

• He shifted, his weight lifting off her, his hair-roughened legs teasing skin sensitized by his touch, his possession. She soaked up the sensations, desperate to brand new memories on her mind, ones that would last her an eternity.
• “Now we will go slow,” he said, and matched action to words by capturing her mouth in one long, languorous kiss that sang through her blood, stealing any protest she’d dare make, tempting her to give herself over to him again.
• “You seem arrogantly sure of yourself,” she murmured against the full curve of his lips when the kiss finally broke and they’d both dragged in air.