You are afraid?”
“I am not!” Spoken too quickly, the words rang false.
“I thought you merely uneasy but now I see there is more than that. Why? It is not as though I am a stranger to you.”
“But you are, stranger than any man I have ever met before.”
Dragon grimaced and caught her hair in his hand, drawing her head back slightly, the better to look at her. “Ever do you pick my vanity. There will be nothing left of it soon.”
She stared back at him in bewilderment. “What have I said?”
“It is what you have not, but never mind, I am resolved, what sighs and moans of pleasure, what cries of delight I wish to hear, I will have from you, wife, before this night is done.

Autor: Josie Litton