Chapter 54

That his words were true only served to shame her further, which she knew for certain was his intention. She’d humiliated him by leaving him, and this was the price he was forcing her to pay.

The worst of it was, her treacherous body was eager to pay the price.

‘I hate you.’

‘I know.' He dipped his head and nipped her earlobe. "Imagine how incredible it will be, all that hate fueling all that lust. "

Sensation filled her, every crevice of her coming alive at his touch and the whisper of his breath on her skin.

Without this for two years...

Somehow, someway, she managed to pull her hands free from his grasp, fully intending to use them as weapons to push him off her. Instead, working of their own accord, they hooked around his neck to pull him in for her hungry lips to connect with his. She had no sane understanding of what she was doing, instinct taking over to seize what her body so desperately wanted.

In that instant, any sort of rationality dissolved from her mind.

In a mesh of lip