Chapter 11Rohene
I returned her kiss, my arms wound around her neck, as if to diminish any space between us. Oh, I behaved shamefully. And yet being close to her—my tongue dancing with hers—gifted strength and vitality. In my confusion, I wanted her and nothing else mattered. I wanted to be close, skin to skin. She roused me in every way.
For a while, I forgot the urgent situation at Leafgreen and the peril my soldiers were in. I cast aside who I was, my history and background, as well as Marwa’s. I became caught in a storm of arousal and a more vulnerable pursuit which might have been destiny, or fate. I was powerless to behave any other way. To do so would’ve denied my very existence.
Marwa returned my kiss just as passionately, but she would go no further. When I tried to lift my top
