CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Vincenzo

My body thrummed deliciously with longing as I watched her pick up her dress and throw it over herself without maintaining eye contact with me. I could hardly hold myself from stopping her and demanding why she was suddenly going to leave.

Her reasons for the sudden change were a puzzle and there was not as much as a clue as to how I could resolve the enigma.

Her rounded buttocks _ perfect in its making_ called out to me silently as she stopped briefly to pick up the dress. It was all I could do to keep myself from taking her in my arms once again.

When she'd turned around to bow briefly, I could not tell whether or not it was fear or disappointment that I saw in her eyes. She was beautiful and vulnerable and I wanted to protect her.

' protect her from yourself?'

I'd heard Ray's voice ask in a drawl. He was taunting me. He'd leaped within me from one angle of my insides to the other, losing himself in the ecstatic feel of her body and the pleasure she brought us both.

"I'm