she’d ever had around him had been shorn away in their time together. Every coupling had stripped her back a little more and now she was putty in his hands.
He was everything she wanted and everything she needed. She knew now she’d been in love with him for years and couldn’t imagine her life without him.
But she would have to imagine it because that day would come. Until then...
Grabbing his buttocks to drive him deeper inside her, she felt the pulsations in her grow quickly. He knew the exact amount of pressure and the precise amount of friction needed to bring her to a peak. He knew her body as well as she did.
She buried her face in the curve of his neck as she came, her cries of pleasure muffled by the warmth of his musky skin. With the tremors still rippling through her, Nathaniel threw back his head and shuddered, his fingers biting into her flesh until the pulsing abated. He wrapped his arms around her and held her tightly to him.
She could feel the strength of his heartbeat, the touch of his fingers through the fabric of her dress as he made little swirls on her back.
She pressed her palms to his cheeks and brought her lips to his, then pulled away a little to look at him.
Despite her best laid plans, she really had fallen in love with him.
She’d learned from her mother that loving someone wasn’t a choice but Catalina had been arrogant enough to think she was different, that she could make herself immune to the emotion and prevent it from happening by sheer willpower alone.
Was this what her mother had felt for her lover? Had she fought the attraction? She must have done. She’d known the dangers better than anyone. She’d known it could never be.
But love didn’t care for danger or willpower. It crept up on you so subtly that it was burrowed into your skin before you knew it was there.
Once lodged in the heart, love was impossible to remove.
And now that it was there she would care for it with everything she had. If, to protect Nathaniel and their baby, she had to submit her life to the will of her father and brother for ever, then that was what she would do.
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