I am,” he rumbled sexily, like a waterfall that’s had a dam collapse upstream and is about to flood and destroy the village of peasants further downstream…many of whom are poor and in desperate need...

Fuck. I knew it,” she whispered.

If you lie there much longer, I’ll be tempted to tie you to the table legs and try buttering your ass instead of the toast.

I’m not a gentleman, Faith.

No. I don’t wish you to leave.”His eyes changed from lukewarm to hot.The iron of the seat met her back. Oh yes, definitely she was the keeper at the zoo and she’d just offered her...

Everything about him enveloped her, made her crave exactly this. His possession. In her mind something relaxed; the balance shifted. She welcomed every way he could touch her, the heat from his body, the atoms...

She’d run over Dankyo in an instant to get to Theo. Be a darn big bump in the road, but she’d do it.

Mine.

She wondered, ever so hopefully, if among these men she would find her holy grail – what she’d been saving herself for from the day she opened the pages of her first romance novel –...