Regina narrowly resisted the urge to touch her fingertips to his throat to feel the vibrations of that already sensual sound. To stop herself, she said instead, "Except when naked in the dark," her own voice velveted in the illusory privacy of a crowd.

It wasn't until after she'd said so that she realized both that she'd slipped out of pretense and that she would probably have been better off touching him for how that sounded.