“Come on, Octavia. Let go of that reserve. I guarantee you’ll enjoy yourself if you do.”
“We are in a filthy secret passageway, just a few feet away from the emperor. I don’t know why this makes you quite so determined to make love, but I assure you, it’s not a setting that arouses me in the least,” I said, aware that I sounded prim and prudish, but clearly, someone had to keep her head in this situation.
“Oh really?” Jack’s mismatched gaze positively glittered with wickedness as he flicked his thumb over my bare n****e. “So that doesn’t do anything for you at all?”
“No, of course not.” I cleared my throat as I pulled up my chemise, inwardly cringing at the patent lie.
He raised both eyebrows at my n****e. It was beaded and tight and rosy, and looked very much like a n****e that had be
