Chapter 75

For reasons she didn’t understand, the fact that he wasn’t interested in hiding this, made her want him that much more.

Besides, her brain was so fuzzy at this point it wasn’t as if she could tell him to stop.

Cedric tugged the gown down, somehow managing to be tender and commanding at the same time. He eased her against him and she shuddered when the sensitive tips of her breasts brushed his bare chest. Heat from the fire made her skin feel warm and tingly. She didn’t know if it was hormones or the fact that it had been so long, but she felt as if she were drowning, being sucked under by waves of arousal. And she let it happen.

“You taste like apples,” he rasped against her lips, and kissed her deeper, as if he were trying to steal the flavor from her mouth.

Her panties were the next thing to go, then he just looked at her, his eyes roaming slowly and deliberately over her body. She wondered if her over-accentuated shape would turn him off, if seeing her bar