‘It’s been my pleasure.’

And it had been.

He didn’t want the evening to end.

What was there to stop him leaning in for a kiss?

Nothing.

Except he’d given his word that nothing physical would happen between them again until they were legally married and he would keep that promise even if his testicles exploded with frustration.

‘Are you working tomorrow?’ She rubbed a hand up her arm, the movement pushing her breasts together. The image of dusky pink nipples immediately floated into his mind and with it came the thickening of his blood he was fast associating to feeling when with her.

He had to assume it was a simple case of forbidden fruit tasting sweeter. Like the child in the sweet shop who had no money and salivated over every piece of delicious confectionery on offer.

are arriving in the evening.

of our love and unity,’

skin. He could

‘Can you?’

of our child,

She raised a hand and pressed it to his

eyes, the desire in them that darkened the

had the chance to act

mou,’ he said, bowing his head, then turning on

she expelled was one of relief or

* * *

out of bed early, not long after

she shrugged on a short, lime-green sundress and slid her feet into a pair of wedged espadrilles, then grabbed her camera and headed out of her suite. As she made her way up the

Was he still sleeping?

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