Chapter 76

Cara dressed for lunch in a simple sleeveless span lemon sundress she had bought on impulse from a boutique sale in Madrid and paired it with open toed shoes. She carefully applied a bit of makeup attached plain gold hoops to her ears and was attempting to scrape her here into some kind of sophisticated up do when Xavier came up behind her and gently pulled her wrists down and removed the few pins that she had already inserted in it.

“I prefer it down,” he said holding her gaze in the mirror until he began to surge against the ad around them.

He was clean and wet from the shower and wore nothing but white towel hanging loosely around his hips and the mirror site of all that hard masculine flesh causing tingles racing all over her skin.

“Xavier,” she whispered her tone mix of plea and admonishment. “We don’t have time.”

He grinned which made her pulse skip and then kissed her shoulder and moved away leaving her to deal with the suppressed desire on the top of a full of nerves.

Nerv