Chapter 44

• Fuelled by a savage wave of frustration, he felt the slow flare of anger begin to burn. "You think you can keep tantalizing me and that I will be like a tame puppy who will just keep trotting behind you and taking whatever it is that you dish out to me? Letting you turn me down, ignore me for weeks, walk away from me—so that I can’t sleep at night thinking about your pale, curved body? Taking me so far with your sweet, soft promise and then acting outraged? Is that what men usually let you do, Sara?"
• She was too busy catching her breath to rise to the taunt.
• "Have you become a tease, Sara?" he persisted.