Neither of them had the strength to stop this explosion of emotions between them, their hands roaming freely over each other’s bodies, straining for a much closer contact.
‘I want to possess you!’ Dominic shuddered against her as he fought for control. ‘I want to feel you naked against me, to know every inch of your body, every quivering nerve. Am I frightening you?’ he groaned as she trembled.
‘You’re exciting me,’ she instantly denied fear. ‘I want that too, Dominic. I want you so badly!’ She blushed at her own admission.
‘When, my darling?’ he moaned, caressing her breast through the material of her dress. ‘When will you be mine?’
‘Whenever you want me,’ she told him breathlessly, aiding his entry down the low cleavage of her dress, her breath catching in her throat as his hand closed possessively over her bare breast.
‘Now,’ he groaned. ‘I want you now!’
Sara gasped as her nipple hardened and rose to the touch of his fingertips, feeling herself swell into his waiting hand, raw desire ripping through her body. ‘Oh God, Dominic!’ She swayed against him, almost fainting with her need of him.
‘Dominic? Dominic!’
Panic washed over Sara as she realised that was Dominic’s mother calling to him. God, she thought, what must the other woman be thinking; they had been out here ages!
‘It’s your mother,’ she told him in a choked whisper. ‘I—She—You have to go in, Dominic.’
If anything his hold tightened about her. ‘And leave you here all alone?’ He shook his head. ‘I can’t do that. I never want you to be alone again, Sara. I want to take care of you, but not as a friend, I want you as a—–’
‘Lover?’ she queried shakily. ‘It wouldn’t do, Dominic. No man could bed two sisters, in all decency.’
He closed his eyes as if to shut out the pain. ‘At this moment I don’t feel decent. I feel—–’
‘Dominic!’ His mother’s call was an angry whisper now. ‘Dominic, we have guests!’ She was obviously very agitated.
He gave an angry sigh, reluctantly buttoning his shirt. ‘I have to go in, Sara. I don’t want my mother coming out here.’
Neither did she; her senses were still very much attuned to Dominic’s caresses. ‘Yes—go. I—I want to stay here for a while. If anyone asks, my father or Marie, tell them I have a headache I’m trying to clear.’
His shaking fingers gently touched her cheek. ‘You won’t be long?’
‘No.’ Just long enough to calm down from the excitement he had caused in her body.
‘Oh, Sara, I wish—God, I wish—–’
‘Please go in, Dominic,’ she begged shakily. ‘Please!’
With great reluctance he turned to go, stopping suddenly to turn and look at her. ‘I won’t forget about tonight, Sara, so don’t ask me to.’ His eyes were still alight with his own passion. ‘And whatever my mother said to you—–’
‘She said for the best,’ she cut in firmly. ‘Now go. But first…’ she reached up and wiped all traces of her lip-gloss from his mouth.
His answer was to once again bend his head and crush her lips with his own, this time wiping his mouth himself, not angrily or roughly, but sensuously soft, as if feeling the taste of her lips against his fingertips. With one last telling glance he was gone, and Sara felt her body relax from the tension she had been under.
She was mad, insane, and yet if she were insane then so was Dominic. He had lost all control, didn’t seem to care that someone could have walked out here at any moment and caught them in what could be called a compromising situation. But perhaps his mother had made sure that didn’t happen, had somehow prevented anyone from coming out here.
Where would it all end? How could such a situation have an end? She wanted and loved Dominic, Dominic obviously wanted her, and yet he loved Marie. Sara loved Marie too, could never hurt her in any way, and yet that love didn’t seem to matter when confronted with her wild longing for Dominic. How could he want both of them? How could he do that to either of them? At least Marie didn’t know he was cheating her, at least she was being spared that pain. But Sara knew all about his duplicity, was in fact the ‘other woman’ in this affair. Once again she asked herself where it would all end.