Once they reached the recessed doorway, however, he stepped behind her and slid his arms around her in a possessive hug. He gave a low, suggestive growl and lowered his head to nibble her ear. “Don’t make me wait any longer. I want to stay with you tonight.” Although nearly crushed against his lean, muscular body, Madi shamelessly twisted her hips across his rigid arousal. It was sublime to possess such exhilarating power over a man, and yet she kept her spoken response deliberately innocent. “ ’Tis bliss simply to rest in your arms like this.” Kieran relaxed his hold to slide his thumb up the fullness of her breast, and his voice grew husky with desire. “Not for me it isn’t. I want to glory in all of you, and now, tonight.” Madi replied in an enticing purr, “I’ll grant a kiss or caress, beloved, but nothing more until after we’re wed.” Kieran raised a hand to smooth a dark curl from her cheek and brushed his lips against her ear.
