Chapter 99

He gulped at the sight of her in slow motion, his eyes riveted first at her still boldly bared breasts, then to the smooth naked mound between her thighs. All his controlling anger shattered, replaced by a desire so hot and so fierce that it frightened him.

“You were gone so long,” she explained coolly on reaching him. “I simply had to go to the bathroom. I was desperate. Don’t worry. I’ll go right back to where I was, as ordered.”

When she went to brush past him his hand shot out to grab her nearest wrist, spinning her back then yanking her hard against him.

“Put your arms up around my neck,” he told her, which she did, eyes flaring wide, lips gasping apart.

With her wearing such high heels, there wasn’t much between their height— Angela was a tall woman—so the juncture of her thighs was in just the right place for him. No time to waste now, he realised, the brakes he’d been exerting on his body up till now no longer working. He was beginning to lose control