QUOTE : Dangerous. A voice warned from somewhere far, far away. Someplace buried so deep in her psyche, she might have forgotten it even existed. <br /><br /> Her reason. Her wit.<br /><br /> He’d interred it beneath the avalanche of desire tumbling through her, tossing her end over end until she couldn’t decide which way was up.<br /> <br /> Danger. You’re in danger.<br /><br /> The warning was closer now, more urgent. Enough to draw her back, breaking the seal of their lips.<br /><br /> She only had a moment of gratification at a similar haze unfocusing his stormy eyes before the clouds parted and he blinked down at her with an expression both alert and regretful.<br /><br /> “Forgive me,” he whispered, releasing the lock on her shackles and letting them fall to the floor.<br /><br /> She looked down at them in mute astonishment, not having even noticed he’d been working on them.<br /><br /> By the time she’d registered that he had moved, he’d slid out the door and pulled it shut and secured the padlock just as she lunged for him.