across the man's face. For a split second, his mind s
sed close, molding against his chest, and the reckless closeness she forced between them-combined with the
Without the slightest hesitation, she leaned in harder, her warm breath brushing his lips as her
ad left was slipping, t
brushed instead against the sleek warmth of her
lungs, and for one perilous heartbeat,
tation didn't read as rejection at all-it felt like
nd bold. She seized his wrist before he could pull back an
ce of cedar clung to him, but the heat of his breath against her lips burned in contrast, sending a strange thrill through
ason gave way completely to instinct. Her fingers shot out,
an eye, everyt
her reeling backward. When her vision steadied, she found herself sprawled across
thin strip of hallway light
nne exhaled softly, irritat
d as an escort? The thou
or him, what was he doing try
ing the loosened tie in her hand, she straightened with unsteady determinatio
ithout warning-didn't that mean
nearly collided with a young man
of practiced charm that felt almost rehearsed. He looked impossibly young, barely out of his te
her and the photo on his phone, brows kni
urtis told me to
opped listening entirely. A cold r
es locking onto the roo
, no,
the wrong room and k
scort without a second glance. Driven by a rising panic, she sprinted after the stranger,
rs-by the time she burst out through the club's entrance, he had already dis
ught her breath, irritation tangling with a
e, something near the entrance snagge
Rolls-Royce Phantom, its sleek body gleaming with authority. The
e on about his elusive uncle, his voice laced with envy and something dangerously close to awe. According to him, the man owned a globally
fingers curling tighter around the tie in h
Jonny answer for what he had done-the sting
at, something sharper, something that
e would never dare belittle again. Even more than that, she wanted to force him into a place where, e
become his un
lf in her mind, she found
a car-it was a doorway, a straight
oved the loosened tie into her crossbody bag, then fumbled out her perfume and
nding, fixing every detail with practiced precision befo
haled deeply, steadying herself, and
ose-let alone someone so far out of her reach that every ste
d through her thoughts, each one
d and knocked on the window. Seconds stretched thin and
ted tightening in her chest, the tinted glass
onto a pair of icy, unreada
ugged at her, halting her breath
the rest of his sharply de
r was now fully revealed under the clear light
t, her thoughts scat
ad forced onto the sofa and kissed
was he sittin
he was Jonny's elusi
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