He gave a laugh of sheer happiness and then he was kissing her again, kissing her wildly and frantically until she put her arms around his neck, wanting him closer and even closer. He raised his head and looked down at her, at her flushed cheeks and her parted lips, at her eyes shining with emotions she did not understand. She only knew that thrills swept through her body making her feel as if she had come alive in a very different way from anything she had ever known before. “You are so beautiful, so exquisite that you are like a flower,” Axel said passionately. Vernita raised her lips to his, wanting him to kiss her again. “My wife,” he said softly, “my own precious wife, my love, my only love!” She felt his hands undoing her white gown, but his lips on hers made it impossible to t