Chapter 11Lawton unfastened his shirt. Slipping it off, he draped it around Melissa’s shoulders before he gathered her against him so she could draw heat from his body. The closeness, coupled with the aphrodisiac of fear and danger, stirred them both.
Melissa squirmed in his arms, pressing herself into his hard, heated body. She met his tenderness with fierce eagerness, arching close and closer still. She twined her arms and legs around him, holding on as if he were her lifeline.
Now, with the crisis past, he could take time for fear. Even better than Melissa, he knew how close they had come to disaster. The vibrant, slender body melting against his woke in him an equally avid need. He strained her to him, kissed her with growing urgency. When she struggled to unfasten his belt and then
