217 Strong climax**

Raine watched as Nathan stared longingly at her with his trembling eyes, his arms suddenly embracing her as if she could disappear at any moment. And if that wasn't enough, he took her breath away as he kissed her with a fiery intensity. For a moment, she was stunned at the sudden action. Nevertheless, Raine responded to his advances in kind, flinging her arms around his neck as she returned the kiss with her own brand of passion. And despite that, even past the pleasure, she could feel him in her soul; the sadness and anxiety that was welling up in his heart, buried under the current haze of pleasure and need...

'He's too scared of losing me,' Raine thought.

Gently breaking the kiss, Raine gazed up at him with watery eyes, her fingers absently running across his firm, sharp-lined jaw. A gentle smile formed on her face as she stared intently into his masculine face, a certain feature of his making him look terribly seductive in her eyes.