My desperate plea probably hit something in him because a moment later, he pulled back a bit and dragged the nightgown completely off my body and stopped. My eyes flew open to see what was taking him so long and why is he not continuing like I needed him to? I found him staring at me, his eyes slowly traveling up and down my body. Reading each curve, each line... His gaze made me a bit self-conscious, but there was nothing I could do to run or hide from him. Racen had me locked in place and, for the first time tonight, I wanted to run and hide from him. "Your body... is more beautiful than I imagined." I had to blink a few times as I processed what he just said. "I would need weeks to give the proper attention it needs, but we do not have it now." "Wha.. What?" "I will have to go

