Chapter 65

Sweat glistened on their skin. He could feel her soft breasts move against him with her breath, and unbelievably he could feel himself stir again. She felt it, too, and wriggled a little.

Simon gritted his teeth and jaw. As much as he wanted this to be an oasis, to take her again and again, he had to remove her from here. Again he felt that untamed part of himself emerge, and he really wasn’t comfortable with that. It made him forget about being in control. And what was compounding this feeling now was the fact that Sara wasn’t just a lover any more, she was the mother of his child. And, he had to acknowledge uncomfortably, even that knowledge didn’t seem to diminish his impulses around her.

As Simon held her cradled against him for those moments, heart rates returning to normal, a vision of the future opened up before him, the clarity of which stunned him. In an instant he realized that the image, the desire forming in his head, was something he hadn’t been able to art