He pushed the dress off her shoulders and it fell and he turned her around and looked at her — just her bra and underwear and the ring on her finger and her dark eyes on his — and something in his expression made her chest tighten.

"You're extraordinary," he said quietly. Not a line. Just what he saw.

She reached up and pulled him down and kissed him and his hands moved over her immediately — her waist, her hips, the curve of her back — learning her with the focused attention of someone who had been thinking about this for a long time.

He unclasped her bra and...