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Frantic with longing, Anna closed her eyes and did.
He lifted his head and looked into her eyes. ‘There are all kinds of slow.’
Her insides fluttered and grew hot. ‘There are?’
‘Absolutely.’
She nodded and fell into him with a sigh of relief as his lips clamped down hard on hers. ‘I can’t keep my hands off you,’ he groaned out. ‘You can say whatever you want to me, you know. Would it help if I told you what I want to say to you, what I want to do to you, have you do to me...?’
Frantic with passion from the seductive voice in her ear, she nodded and whispered, ‘Please.’
‘Someone might come,’ she said a while later as she fought her way into her swimsuit.
Soren watched her contortions with a lazy smile. ‘No, I swim naked normally, so people keep away. Did I buy that swimsuit?’
‘Yes.’
‘It was worth every penny.’
‘Does no one else use the pool?’
‘Most people prefer the indoor heated...my mum swims in the sea usually, but she comes here sometimes. I think she misses the hot springs at home. I’ll take you there some time. It’s quite an experience.’
She didn’t take the offer seriously, but it was a nice thought. Two days—if it hadn’t been for the library she might have gone mad, but it had given her time to think, maybe too much time, and she didn’t know an awful lot she hadn’t before, but she did know that whatever this was...whatever she felt, or didn’t, she wanted to extract every last moment of pleasure and build as many memories as she could.
Which probably translated as she was his for the taking... Did he want to take her?
‘This must be quite a change from Iceland for her.’
‘Mum is Sicilian. It’s Dad she misses.’
‘Sorry.’
‘I found him.’
She dropped down beside him at the table and touched his bare arm. ‘You’re cold.’
‘He took his own life.’
‘Oh, Soren...’
‘I was mad with him for so long for leaving us. It’s not true that it’s an easy way out. It’s not...easy at all. It’s ugly.’ Anna listened in horror, afraid to move or say anything in case he stopped.
She watched as the glazed look in his eyes suddenly cleared; he blinked and looked at her as if he was shocked to see her sitting there.
‘If you want to talk.’
He looked at her hand on his arm and laughed. ‘I have spent the last twelve years trying not to think about it. Talk? That’s the last thing I want to do.’
She thought of the pain and memories he had hidden away and her heart ached for the boy he had been and the self-contained man he was now. She had let down her barriers and allowed him in, but she could not see him ever letting her in.
‘Well, if you ever do...you know where I am.’
‘So how long will the library keep you here?’
‘The library is not a month’s work, it is more a lifetime’s work, but I’ll be here as long as...’ She shook her head. ‘Although, I have to go home soon. My grandfather’s condition is not going to improve. He is very sick. He needs me.’
‘You can’t go!’ He intercepted her startled look and made a corrective tone adjustment. ‘Yet. You can’t go yet. You’ve barely started.’
