His mouth moved over hers brutally in his anger. Nothing could have prepared her for such a violent jolt of desire, when she had never felt desire before. She had wanted this to happen, but she had not guessed how devastating the actuality would be. Kristen had waited for this, to know the feel of lips, to be able to touch him. “You do it apurpose,” he hissed before his mouth slashed down over hers. “Why do you tempt me so?” He asked this not of her but to himself. She held her breath as his eyes moved angrily over her face. When he stopped, she felt only a moment’s surprise when his hand went to the back of her neck, his fingers gripping her hair to yank her head back. His expression was intense, harsh, and her heart beat even faster, not in fear but in expectation. She did not move, waiting for him to reach her.

She jumped up curiously, her heartbeat quickening when she saw Royce coming out of the shadows, his direction not the stairs, but toward her, straight to her. Kristen had been stretching when she heard the steps crossing the floor, coming from the entrance. So with the full force of her Viking determination she sets out to win the heart and love of her captor. The Viking maiden has been searching for a man who could stir her senses and make her blood sing, and now she’s finally found him in Royce. Kristen Haardrad has been imprisoned by the Saxon warlord Royce when her shipmates dared to attack Royce’s lands. “Stuff! Rakes like you don’t have hearts. Will you? Think carefully before you answer,” he said with a devastating smile. I hope you don’t mean to compromise me more than you already have.”

She eyed the closed door and his large frame blocking that only exit. Oh, it was a reckless mood she was suddenly in! Scandalously, she wondered if it would be such a terrible thing to lose her virtue to him. Yet for some reason he couldn’t fathom, she wasn’t afraid of this man. It was not at all safe for a young lady to be alone with a man of his stamp, and Reggie recognized that. He quietly closed the door and leaned back against it, those beautiful amber eyes boldly moving over her from head to foot. You look very much like something I did right for a change.” “I am just now wondering if I have in fact made a mistake at all. You certainly took enough time about it.” “I was beginning to wonder when you would realize your mistake. There was a sexual magnetism about him that was quite unnerving. It wasn’t just his face, though that was striking. His tone implied “What have we here?” And Reggie grinned despite herself. Desperate to bring everything under control, he cast about for something-anything-to say.

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