Chapter 43

Fuelled by a savage wave of frustration, he felt the slow flare of anger begin to burn. "You think you can keep tantalizing me and that I will be like a tame puppy who will just keep trotting behind you and taking whatever it is that you dish out to me? Letting you turn me down, ignore me for weeks, walk away from me—so that I can’t sleep at night thinking about your pale, curved body? Taking me so far with your sweet, soft promise and then acting outraged? Is that what men usually let you do, Sara?"

She was too busy catching her breath to rise to the taunt.

"Have you become a tease, Sara?" he persisted.

Her lips were trembling, "No. No."

"Just a woman who promises so much, who lets a man touch her so intimately and then freezes up? If that isn’t your definition of a tease, then I’d like to know what is."

Frustratedly, she shook her head—knowing that he spoke nothing but the truth. She was acting like a naïve little virgin around him, when they both k