Do you know what it is like to dream of you knowing that I had sampled just the barest of tastes at your table? [ His free hand has settled on her hip, but where the rest of him is deliberately still, his hips roll against hers in time to the kisses he steals from her mouth; the way his tongue teases her lips to part.

When he noses at her throat, the beat of her heart is like a drum in his ears, and he lets the hand that had fallen from her cheek to her shoulder palm the curves of her waist. ]

I have not had a woman in my life for a long time, Eun. But it has been both a gift and a curse to keep my hands off of you.