Chapter 16

Cedric stared at his own reflection in the windows opposite him, the tiger’s smile vanishing, the intensity of his disappointment surprising him. Did you really expect her to agree to everything?.

Yes. Yes, he had. She was passionate and she wanted him, that had been obvious to him the moment he’d first spotted her watching him swimming in the lake. He didn’t think he’d been wrong. He knew when a woman desired him. So what was the problem?

Good question. One you could ask yourself.

Denial had never bothered him before, not that it happened very often, but still. So her refusal shouldn’t be an issue. And yet it was. And he had a sneaking suspicion he knew why. That it was about how she’d made him feel out there beside the lake and in the sitting room of Haerton, the fire of her passion lighting him up, chasing away the ghosts of his past. Making him feel alive.

And which in turn made him uneasy. He didn’t like acceding her any power and yet there was no denyin