might send my maid back in? I should be getting out to dress. And…and I need the towel.’
The towel hung in plain view over a dainty lyre-backed chair. If it was anything like the towels he used, and it had damn well better be, then it was silky soft, but he’d wager it wasn’t as soft as his wife’s skin.
He was moving before he’d so much as drawn breath. ‘Permit me.’
‘What? No!’
The towel was already in his hand as he rounded the end of the screen. There was a frantic splashing as his furiously blushing wife drew her knees up to wrap her arms about them and hide her breasts, but he had one brief glimpse of heaven—wet, creamy, rose-tipped breasts and the delicate curve of her waist. It was enough; she was utterly delectable.
He shut his eyes and held out the towel. ‘There you are.’ There she was indeed. Soft and damp and naked. And he had his damned eyes shut.
‘Th-thank you.’ The tinkle of water told him she’d stood. He shut his eyes even tighter, reminding himself of all the reasons he shouldn’t open them. She was a new bride. Still shy, maidenly. She shrank from the idea of making love with a lamp lit; last night he’d tried leaving a candle alight, but she’d reminded him, in a wooden little voice that had torn him apart, so he’d blown it out, drawn the bed hangings to banish even the firelight.
The towel was taken from his grasp by a hand that seemed to tremble, and he fought the ignoble urge to open his eyes and see his wife, this woman whom he knew only by touch, and taste, a little.
Against all physical possibility, he hardened even more. Hell. If she saw that— With a strangled curse, he turned away, walking stiffly back around the screen.
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