Now, Paul stood waiting in the shadows of the atrium for Morian to appear. When she did, he felt the breath leave him as it always did when he first saw her. She was breathtaking in her beauty and in the way she moved. He could watch her all day and never grow tired. He waited until she had turned her back to gaze down at the center pool before he came up silently behind her, sliding his arms around her and trapping her against his hard length.
“You’ve been avoiding me,” Paul murmured gruffly. “I don’t like that,” he added as he pressed a kiss against the side of her neck. “I don’t like it at all,” he breathed out against her silky skin.
Morian gasped at the unexpected embrace. She had spent the last two and a half weeks doing everything in her power to stay away from Paul Grove and his
