BOOK 3: Chapter 44: The Line They Can’t Uncross
She doesn’t wait for approval—not anymore. Not after what just happened between them. After he’s already taken her, utterly and completely. After he’s f****d her into oblivion and made her feel pleasures her mind still struggles to hold. Her thoughts are unmoored, spinning in senseless, breathless loops that refuse to land. Amanda steps into the shower like she’s floating, weightless and wet with something more than water. Adrian follows her, silent, heated, his presence behind her like a second layer of steam.
Under the stream, he takes his time—too much time. He brushes his hands across her skin with a careful touch that makes it worse. There’s no urgency in him now, only this slow, deliberate hunger. His fingers find the hollows behind h
