Because he’d wanted to? Because his body throbbed and ached every
the time he looked at her? Despite his experience with women, William surveyed her with something approaching incredulity. How was she managing to turn elemental s*x into a conversation topic? He spread his hands in a gesture of mounting exasperation, trying to rein in the ferocious surge of animal ust that still threatened to engulf him. ‘Isn’t it obvious? I find you sexy.’
She tilted her head back and fastened him with her gaze. ‘But you
don’t like me, do you?’
William clenched his jaw. Never, if he lived a million years, would he understand a woman’s drive to question the blindingly obvious. ‘And
how is that relevant?’
‘I can’t believe you just asked me that.’ She rubbed a hand over her face to remove the rain
