The Prince's Virgin Wife by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-04-10T01:52:09+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

TOMASSO climbed into the boat with a grace she envied and then started the small outboard motor. He lifted anchor and then guided them to the shallows, cut the engine and dropped anchor again an easy paddle from the shore.

This time when he went to help her out of the boat, she gritted her teeth, determined to bear it in silence. She’d given him far too much reaction already today, but she couldn’t stop her heart from racing.

Her initiation into intimacy had been painful, but her body chose to remember the pleasure before penetration as well as the mind-numbing completion he’d given her six years ago. She craved closeness with him, both physically and mentally. It was as if the last six years had never happened and her emotions were as tightly wound up in him as they’d ever been before. How could something so devastating happen overnight?

Her desire-befuddled brain had no answers, but nor could it deny that a profound change had occurred inside of her. Her heart had once again made a place for Tom Prince…or Prince Tomasso. It didn’t matter what she called him, her heart knew he was the one man who would ever reside there.

It wasn’t fair that he should have such an impact on her and she have no defenses against it, except to pretend indifference when she felt anything but. But life was not fair, and she’d learned that long before she’d met him the first time.

With the children’s help, she spread out a blanket under the shade of the dense island foliage further up the beach and then laid out the lunch. Once they’d eaten, Anna and Gianni cajoled Tomasso and Maggie into a game of tag. Afterward, she was only too happy to lay down on the blanket in the shade with the little ones and take a lazy nap.

She woke to the feeling of something soft brushing across her stomach. Her eyes slid open and she saw that Tomasso was seated on the blanket beside her, sweeping a palm frond across her sensitive flesh. Her now dry, but still thin bathing suit was no barrier to the riotous sensations he seemed intent on evoking.

She realized the towel was no longer wrapped around her at the same time as the palm frond took a dangerous sweep upward, trespassing the valley between her breasts. “What happened—”

His fingertip pressed against her mouth. “Shh…the children are still sleeping.”

And they were, looking so angelic, it made her heart ache.

The palm frond continued its tantalizing touching and she put her hand on his wrist to stop him, but part of her didn’t want to.

His fingertip slid from her lips to the rapidly beating pulse in her neck. “I want you, Maggie.”

“No.”

“Yes. And you want me, too.”

She wanted to say no again, but her mouth refused to utter the lie. Though a certain amount of fear mixed with that desire. Would it hurt again?

“No.”

“I didn’t ask a question,” she whispered.

“Your eyes did.”

“What question was that?”

“You are afraid it will hurt again, but I promise you, it will not.

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