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“Danni, come here to me.”
His hoarse whisper filled the silence, and shivers played up and down her spine. He reached out and pulled her close to kiss her. In the semi-darkness the sand dune and jungle background echoed the soft shush of their hideaway. She looked at him, feeling as if she might drown in the sea-green of his eyes.
He groaned and pulled her closer to his hard body. For a moment she lay still, nestled against his chest, listening to his heart thudding in her ear. “I've wanted to possess you from the first time I saw you,” he murmured into her hair.
Danielle pushed him away gently but firmly, tears edging from her closed eyelids. She waited for words of love, but they never came. After their sham marriage was over he would leave her for Teresa. The thought was intolerable.