He was a patient man, but at the moment he felt the insane urge to tumble her over and drive between her thighs until it was all either of them knew or could feel, but he remembered his injured shoulder and knew that he couldn't.

“I want you naked,” he told her, and watched as she did as he asked, pulling her nightie over her head.

She was completely naked now and he glanced up her body, following the line over her belly to her full breasts and then back down to the slim curve of her ...