She remembered the playful, mischievous glimmer in his eyes as he snatched the dessert away from her. Like he had done so many days over the holiday, he scooped her up into his arms and carried her across the library floor, all the way up the grand staircase and down the long hallway to the double door entrance to his room. She pretended to protest, but couldn’t deny the thrill that coursed through her; the way he took charge when he needed her body and knew that she needed his too.