Chapter 35: Chapter 35: In My Fantasy

"This won't solve anything, Mark. We need to talk and you're straining your knee." She didn't know what she felt anymore. She loved him, wanted him, but didn't trust her own emotions. He'd raped her mind, but now he wore a piece of silver that caused him to shiver with pain to prove her importance to him. She knew he was trying to put the alliance together to keep her safe.

"This will solve something for me," he said. Rhett Butler might have stormed up the stairs with Scarlet O Hara in his arms, but Mark carried her with a deliberation and intent that was a hundred times more exciting. In their room, he gently put her on her feet. "When I gave you the memory of the first time we made love, that was my fantasy. I wanted to do that with you, I wanted it to be more than a fantasy."

He unclasped the gold clip that held her hair at the back of her head. Her hair spilled over her shoulders. It was so long it covered her like a silk blanket.