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She moved across and wound her arms around his neck and moaned softly as his mouth took hers.

God help me, I can’t get enough of her. He deepened the kiss and her tongue danced with his. The blood hummed through his body and he fought to keep control.

Gently he pulled back, and took her arms from around his neck and held her hands between his.

“I need to feel your hands on me.” She took his hand and laid it on her thigh, and David groaned as her thigh muscle tightened beneath his fingers.

David lifted his hand and held her gaze. Her lips were parted, and she stared with uninhibited desire at him. It was one of the hardest things he’d done, but he tore his eyes away and looked out onto the street to get his control back. He took a deep breath and crossed his arms.

Before I rip her clothes off right here in this grotty van.

“I know exactly what you’re saying. I understand how you feel. This time stuff can screw with your head.” He chose his words deliberately to try to put some distance between them, to move away from the sexual tension that was hovering around them. “I’ll explain everything to you when we get you back to the cottage. Or as much as I can, anyway.”

Megan glanced into the back of the van. A mattress butted against the bare metal walls and it was covered with food wrappers and empty bottles. A pile of clothes held an indentation the shape of a head, and had obviously been used as a pillow.

“So we don’t have time…” She glanced back at the mattress.

David’s blood heated as he saw the naked hunger on her face. It was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen.

She wants me as much as I need her.

“No, not here.” He laughed as he looked back at the mess in the back of the van. “The first time I laid with you was under the stars with the sound of water playing music to us. The second is not going to be in Bear’s van.” He couldn’t do it. Her body was calling to be touched and he leaned in and kissed her, running his finger down the front of her T-shirt and cradling her breast in his palm. “No matter how much I need to.”

“This is really out of character for me. The intensity is, well…it’s just peculiar.” Megan’s voice was husky. “I don’t do this.”

“It’s okay. Just chill,” he reassured her. “It will be interesting to see if these feelings stay when we go back…it’s almost like a craving…an addiction.”

A flicker of uncertainty ran over Megan’s face. “Tell me what’s going to happen.”

“We drive to the field where the stones are and I’ll find the time gate on the ley line. We need to get there by midday."

“To where?”

“The stones.” David let Megan’s hand go and the loss that shot through his body rocked him to the core. His hand went out to hold her again and he wasn’t aware of the action. He grabbed hold of the steering wheel and looked ahead. It had to be something to do with the time shift; he was becoming more certain of that every time he touched Megan, and it worried him.

Whatever it was, it seemed to have the same effect on her. Although if he was honest, he’d been attracted to her since he’d landed on top of her on the porch.

“I’ll explain it all soon.”

***

Megan shivered as David let her hand go. While he was holding her or touching her, she felt grounded. She sighed with relief as he reached out and took her hand again.

Safe.

Even with the pure sexual desire that coursed through her every time he came near her or held her gaze, she trusted him implicitly. This connection between them seemed like something out of this world.

Eerie. Supernatural.

It was as though she’d been bewitched. Her life in Sydney seemed detached from the present and she had to concentrate really hard to grasp and hold the memory of anything before she’d woken up in that first aid tent yesterday. It was like being in a parallel universe, like something she watched at the movies. But she was in it. She didn’t care about anything—or anyone she’d left behind there.

I’m totally out of my realm…

Fear knotted in her chest and Megan crossed her arms tightly in front of her as David started the car.

What was the present?

Confusion filled her thoughts. So much had happened in the last couple of days and they hadn’t really talked about it. David had not admitted in so many words that he was actually Davy Morgan. Nor had he confirmed that she had gone back in time.