"Fine. You can pull away from me for now. You can keep your distance and shake. But Eve, I'll not let you do it forever." She looked up at that, blue eyes wide and startled. "What do you mean?" "I mean," he said, a deep sense of rightness spreading through him even as he gathered the words, "that I won't let this stand. I will touch you. Sometime. Somewhere. I'm going to touch you all over, Eve, and what's more, you'll enjoy it." His voice had deepened as he'd spoken until the last words of his mouth left his mouth in a purring rumble."