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He had other ideas. He swung her into his arms and didn’t set her free until they were in his suite. And then it was merely to shed his tuxedo jacket before he snatched her back to kiss her until they both couldn’t breathe.
The minute he released her, she stumbled back from him.
‘Did you hear me? Take this thing off me.’
His sauntered towards her, dark, sexy eyes gleaming. ‘Not just yet. I like it on you.’
‘I know why you put it on me. Is that how you see me? As a possession?’
He stopped. ‘No, but I’m extremely possessive when it comes to you. Watching you tonight …’ He shook his head, his accent uncharacteristically thick. ‘I hated it every time another man looked at you.’
‘Then you should’ve let me take it off earlier.’
‘I was testing myself.’
‘What?’
‘The first time I saw my grandmother wearing it, she told me the story behind it. Since I knew she wasn’t the subservient type, I asked her why she wore it. She told me she wanted to remind my grandfather who was in control.’
Reiko frowned. ‘I don’t understand.’
‘I’ve never seen a man so consumed by a woman the way my grandfather was with her. She invaded his every living moment. I don’t think he took a single breath without thinking of her.’
‘Some would call that love.’
His eyes darkened. ‘She used his feelings to emasculate him. Is that love?’
‘How did he feel when she died?’
‘More miserable than I’ve ever seen him,’ he confessed.
She started to tell him what that meant, but a vein of fear struck her heart. ‘So this test you were conducting … what was the result?’
His smile was devastating in its power. ‘I realised I could breathe.’
Her heart lurched. ‘I’m happy for you. Now, can you take this off?’
He didn’t honour her request. Instead he took his time to study her. A gleam entered his eyes—one that made her breath catch in her chest.
‘Damion …?’
‘The diamonds light you up. They caress your neck like a lover’s touch.’ He moved towards her. ‘Like my touch. The idea of someone else touching you makes me slightly insane.’
‘I didn’t touch anyone tonight.’
‘Non. Had you done so, we would be having a different conversation right now.’
The hardened, primitive look in his eyes sent a hot thrill of delight through her despite all the warnings she’d given herself.
‘Did you spend your whole evening watching me?’
He inhaled deeply. ‘That’s all I seem to do when I’m with you. It’s a compulsion I cannot seem to break.’
Heat surged through her belly, igniting the banked fire that seemed to need just the promise of Damion’s proximity to flare to life.
Her hand went to her throat. The sapphire warmed her fingers, the smooth stone almost as seductive as Damion’s deep voice. The cloying need to remove it subsided.
‘I want you naked—wearing nothing but that choker.’
