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she'd been holding finally rushing out of her lungs. Her heart hammered
ight's g
ed in her ears, auda
role she was dangerously unqualified to play. All she had to do was slip out the side entra
mped aroun
al, but it was firm,
d washed over her as she was yanked sideways, pulled dire
hut behind her. Th
nic seized her. It had to be the man from the hallway, the one w
e shadows. It was low, laced
at up, a metal lighter clicking open and shut in his hand. The b
pupils c
stared out from the covers of business ma
t completely blank. Every ounce of luck she though
ng, intimidating shadow that swallowed the room. He moved toward h
ce was a low, pleasant baritone that
Denying it now would be worse. She
forcing a brittle sm
mell the faint, expensive scent of tobacco and cologne cl
ray eyes, stripping away her composure layer by layer,
rying to project the playful annoyance of a girlfriend caught in
out, his fingers gently tucking a loose
guts," he
her throat. She had no
inst the shell of her ear. His warm
pered, the sound a seductive
last of her fragile composure. She hadn't just been caught
out. The color drained from her f
in her panicked expression with the sat
the muffled, indignant voice of the man she had
d. His eyes went cold. He glance
waist, pulling her flush against his hard body.
er mind reelin
terrified club manager, Sean, and the persistent tru
: Kaden Knight, the untouchable titan of ind
d, cold and dismissive. He didn't s
In front of everyone, under the stunned silence of th
's time fo
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