“Do you hear me, Verena?” He was watching me so carefully, so intensely. “I am drowning in my want for you, and there is no room inside me for fear. Take from me, touch me. Feed your body with what yearns for you. I would ruin every part of me to give to you.” I turned my head slightly, looking away from him, from his words. “Look at me,” he demanded, and I couldn’t deny him. “I am yours, and you are mine. There is nothing beyond that. No fear between the two of us.”
