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Do not cover your body just yet, Nico said with that one word.Do not remove it from my gaze.
For on that torrid night, so many years ago, he had not gazed and he had not lingered.
Now he took in the gleaming olive skin and the delicious softness of her stomach, the dark brown nipples that were like searchlights for him and the dark shadow where her shapely thighs met.
He fought not to take her this very second.
He fought not to unzip himself as he parted her legs and take her there and then.
He admired his own control as he removed his jacket.
But it was not quite perfect control, because he could not seem to stop the thrill of anticipation that made his breath shorten.
For it might be daylight on the other side of the curtains, but this was their one night as husband and wife.
And so he dropped his jacket to the floor, and with the same carelessness and impatience discarded his socks and shoes. And then he took off his shirt and felt her eyes reclaim his skin.
Oh, Nico.
She had missed that chest so. It was broad and had a smattering of hair. His long arms were so toned that hecouldhave been out working the vines.
Her breath hitched as she watched him remove the last of his clothes.
‘You could have had me on Monday night,’ Nico said.
‘I know.’ Her voice was so low and thick that she almost turned around to see who stood behind her, but of course it came from her.
‘Why didn’t you?’ he asked. For that was a side of Aurora that he wanted to know.
‘Things were different then,’ Aurora said.
Then she had been trying to get over him—then she had been denying the throbbing of her body and the beckoning of his soul to hers and telling herself she did not have to succumb.
But she did not have to tell Nico all that. She did not have to tell him that this very morning she had thrown a coin in the Trevi Fountain and asked to be made love to by Nico in Rome.
She hastily amended that wish.
For now she did not want to be made love to by Nico, she told herself. She wanted powerful sex with him, the way she had known it before.
Aurora was too afraid to know his love and then attempt life without it.
‘Please…’ she said.
Please come to bed. Please let me know again that flat stomach and those muscular thighs. Let me be taken by you again.
He got into bed.
‘Hello, husband,’ she said.
And this time when she said it Nico did not roll his eyes.
He turned off the light and lay beside her. ‘Are you awake?’ he said to the dark.
‘I’m awake,’ she said, and rolled to face him.
Have me now. Take me now, her eyes told him as they lay facing each other on their sides.Give me your untamed passion again.
Instead he spoke. ‘Life is peaceful with my wife—calm and without demands.’
