Chapter 71

After so much build up Sara was helpless not to respond, even though she knew in some small, still-rational part of her brain that it would be much better for her to step back and say no. But her body had other ideas. Her hands were already scrabbling for his shirt, pulling it out of his trousers. She was aching to feel his skin. She reached for buttons, found them and opened them impatiently, and somehow managed to push the shirt off his broad shoulders where it fell to the floor unseen and already forgotten beside hers.

Simon pulled back, breathing harshly. “You turn me into something…You make me feel like I’ve still got my past in my blood. Like I’m untamed.”

Sara reached up a hand and curved it around his jaw. Everything that had just happened previously was forgotten. “It’s not a bad thing, it’s a part of you.” She reached up and pressed a kiss to his jaw, and she felt it clench. “I can handle it. Show me what it’s like.”

Simon bent and lifted Sara into his ar