Chapter 109

• Every time she looked at Leo he got more gorgeous. She searched for a flaw and couldn't find one. She reminded herself of how in every field he failed her standards for the mythical ideal man and still she was plunged into this appallingly adolescent state of sexual awareness every time he came within ten feet of her! She felt like an arsonist holding dry paper, desperate for the match to ignite her conflagration.
• Nobody had ever told her and she had never dreamt that her thoughts and her reactions could rove so violently out of her control. But somehow Leo had done this to her... Dear heaven, if he was to approach her again, what devastation might he then leave in his wake? She reminded herself that Leo had had his revenge. He had made love to her. He had asserted his truly unforgivable conviction that she had no rights whatsoever over her own body. Why on earth should he want to do it again?
• It occurred to her that Leo's gaze had turned darker and in addition to his extraordinarily long silence his eyes were wandering over her slowly but with sizzling intensity. Alarm bells went off madly inside her head. Susan dredged her eyes from his and dropped them, but that was a mistake... She noticed, absolutely could not help but notice that Leo was unmistakably in a state of sexual arousal.