RELUCTANT WIFE 16

Even though her hormones were raging through her body, screaming for fulfilment, she knew she mustn’t give in. If she did he would win this battle, and indeed, their own particular war. Licking her lips, she stood her groimd, ‘I don’t want to make love now.’

‘Liar!’

‘I’m not!’

‘You want me to rip your clothes from you now. This minute!’ He moved nearer, a fraction away from her. Not touching her and yet drowning her in her need to have him take her here in the cabin. He circled her slowly, a whisper away and still not touching her.

Her mind was screaming out, ‘I can’t,’ as he teased her senses merely by being there. Taimting her with the thought he could take her to heaven and back and the knowledge that reality would be so much better.

‘Still no? You know damn well I wouldn’t even dream of forcing you,’ he whispered seductively against her neck. She shivered as he urged, ‘Give yourself to me.’

‘I can’t,’ she moaned, closing her eyes so she didn’t have to look at him. This was a barba