startled by what she’d just experienced. “That was…”
“Amazing,” he finished when she couldn’t come up with a description.
“Yes,” she breathed, lifting her arms to circle around his neck. “Now what happens?”
He kissed her neck and her ear again before pulling away. “Now, you go back to your cabin and go to sleep.” He zipped up her shorts again, his fingers deft and sure.
He lifted himself off of her, then bent down to pick her up as well.
Ciara was so stunned by that statement that she wasn’t sure what to say. She didn’t want to stop but she was suddenly shy and wrapped her arms around her naked breasts self-consciously. “I don’t want to go back. And you…”
“I’m fine,” he assured her.
She pressed her hands against his bare chest, feeling the tension within him. “You’re not okay. I want to finish this,” she told him, kissing the middle of his chest.
Zoran closed his eyes and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her closer. “We can’t.”
“Why not?” she demanded.
He kissed the top of her head. “Because you are a virgin.”
She stiffened in his arms, not sure why his words hurt so much. “And?”
He pushed her away from him and shook his head. “And you need to walk away from me, Ciara. I’m not the man for you.”
Ciara suddenly realized that she was standing in front of him, nearly naked and felt vulnerable. She quickly closed her bra, shifted her shorts and grabbed her shirt from the ground, knocking off the dirt before pulling it over her head.
Dressing gave her enough time to pull herself together and realize what she wanted. Him! “We’re going to finish this tomorrow night, Zoran,” she told him firmly. “Meet me here.”
Zoran heard the words and would have liked nothing better. But this was not to be. She had to give her virginity to her husband. “I won’t be here, Ciara.” That husband couldn’t be him. He had a political marriage waiting for him and he couldn’t ignore his responsibilities.
She stiffened with his words and looked up at him. She could see the need in his eyes and her heart broke for this man because, instinctively, she knew that he was in pain and was stopping only because of his innate sense of honor.
She stepped closer, ignoring him when he stepped back. She reached out and touched the middle of his chest again. “Yes you will. And so will I. It’s going to be wonderful.”
With that, she walked away, running back to her cabin. Before she turned the corner, she looked back and saw him. Raising her hand, she nodded her head, silently telling him again that they would finish together tomorrow night.
Chapter 3
Ciara worried all the next day. She was in charge of the archery station and this was an area in which she excelled. Shooting and using a bow and arrow were a requirement of her education, so she was able to give solid advice to each of the campers as they came through her station. Even the guys in charge of the BB gun station came over to her when the weapons jammed. She was quickly able to fix them and even moved over to that area when one of the campers was really struggling, becoming discouraged by his lack of ability to hit the paper target.
But the whole day, she was wondering if Zoran would meet her that night. She had everything ready for him and she wasn’t going to take no for an answer. The week was coming to an end and she would be heading home. She wasn’t leaving here without experiencing the bliss of being in Zoran’s arms, of fully becoming his woman.
What if he didn’t show up? What if he decided that he couldn’t follow through?
She would track him down, she told herself. Somehow, some way, she would get her security team to find him, to discover everything about him so that she could go to him. She had absolutely no idea how their future together could work, but somehow,