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He eased away from her and took a step back.
Her breathing was labored, her cheeks flushed red, and her eyes overflowing with passion. And damn if he didn’t want to grab her and make love to her.
“We should go to the keep,” she said, as if trying to convince them both.
“I don’t want to,” he said truthfully.
“Neither do I,” she admitted, “but it is too soon for us to—”
“Make love?”
“Will that be what we’re doing?”
He rubbed at his chin and walked around the table to distance himself from her, not trusting that his hands wouldn’t reach out and do more than take hold of her. “I don’t know.”
“How could either of us know? We’ve only met.”
“You have been wed how many times?” he asked.
“Once, though another died on our wedding day before vows were exchanged.”
“Did you love either man?”
She nodded. “I loved Rory, the one I never got to wed.”
“Did you feel for him when he kissed you what you feel for me when I kiss you?”
She stared at him a moment, and he pondered the wisdom of his question. Did he truly want to know if she favored another man’s kiss over his?
“Rory stirred me with kisses,” she said softly, and her lavender-colored eyes deepened to a rich purple. “You consume me with yours.”
He smiled, pleased, though he had to know more. “Did your body fit as well with him as it does with me?”
Again, she paused, and again, he worried over the answer.
“We fit well enough.”
“That’s not what I asked,” he said. “Did you fit as well with him as you do with me?”
This time she didn’t pause or hesitate. “I thought so at the time.”
“And now?”
“Now I see that you and I fit as two parts that make a whole.”
“Perfectly put,” he said, glad that she felt as he did.
“When did you know you loved Rory?”
“When I first saw him,” she said with a sad smile.
“You needed no time to be sure?”
“None. I knew there and then he was the man I wanted as my husband.”
He suddenly felt a swell of envy for the dead man. “And what did you think when you first met me.”
“I knew you were the man who would save me.”
