title: Only His Kiss (Promises, a Romance)
author:  Sherrie Lord 
description: Sherrie Lord has a degree in environmental science, but is half of a wake-up morning team on an Idaho FM station. She and her husband have two sons. Only His Kiss is her second novel. Airwaves, her first, is also in the Promises Romance series.
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  “YOU ARE DRIVING ME HALF-MAD! AND IF I DON’T KISS YOU, I SHALL GO COMPLETELY
  MAD!”
  
  Royce crushed her against him, his lips hungrily finding hers. This was no
  innocent kiss of first love. This was a man’s kiss, a man whose desires had
  been kept too long in check.
  
  For one mad moment, Pip reveled in his kiss. Then the terrifying knowledge of
  where this could take them flooded through her. From here it would be a simple
  step to become his lover, his plaything. Twisting herself away from him, she
  cried, “Don’t!”
  
  “What? Don’t kiss you? Don’t hold you in my arms like this? You ask the
  impossible of me, sweetheart.”
  
  Pip glared at him. “Take your hands off of me! My mother may have been a
  whore, but I am not! I may be your servant and you may have offered me refuge
  but I have no intention of letting you become my master!”
  
  “Leave then!” he shouted, infuriated by his desire for her. “G