Chapter SixHe drew her closer as he spoke and Valda tried to push him away.
“No! No! No!”
Her voice was lost as he tipped her back against the pillows and his lips were on hers.
He kissed her fiercely and roughly with a violence that was frightening.
She was still struggling, but ineffectively and she realised how weak and helpless she was against his strength.
His lips hurt her, she was conscious of the pain of them and, for a moment, she felt panic-stricken, feeling herself captured and overpowered.
Then, just as had happened before, the dagger-like pain that swept through her body turned into rapture and ecstasy.
The fight went from her and she became soft and yielding, her body moving against his, her whole being bemused by a wonder that seeped into her throat and up to her lips
