Sera drank his kisses down hungrily. She feeling feral, or maybe undone — she ran her hands up and down Dempsey's back as if to verify that she had not imagined this whole thing while she was reading a romance novel. When their kiss ended, Sera admitted, "I've never," in a whisper, a flush on her face. She had never expected a man would actually bother to get her off, no matter what the books said.