Chapter 46

• The blissful, rose-scented haze slowly dissipated as Valerie returned to awareness, her nerve endings still thrumming with delicious aftershocks. She was vaguely cognizant of Michael tenderly toweling away the fragrant rivulets trailing down her torso, but remained mostly lost in the euphoric sensations ricocheting through her core.
• It was only when his sculpted lips found that thundering pulse at the base of her throat that Valerie's eyes finally fluttered open. She immediately anchored on the ruggedly handsome angles of Michael's face, transfixed by the naked masculine satisfaction blazing in those emerald depths. Mingled with that intense undercurrent of primal hunger that had yet to be fully slaked.
• "As deliciously indulgent as whiling away the entire morning worshiping your exquisite form would be, my insatiable wife," he rasped in that smoky timbre already ringing with reluctance, "I fear pressing matters in the business realm require my attention."