BOOK 3: Chapter 14: Danger Deepens
“Don’t stop.”
That’s all it takes. Two trembling words, barely whispered, caught in the humid air between their mouths—and Adrian snaps. There’s no pretense left. No guilt. No hesitation. No thought except for her.
He grabs her with a force that blurs the line between passion and madness, one arm curling beneath her thighs, the other at her back as he hauls her away from the fogged-over bathroom. Her body’s still damp, glistening, flushed. She clings to his neck, heart racing so wildly it almost drowns out the wet slap of their bodies colliding, lips crashing again and again.
He doesn’t fumble. Doesn’t pause. The walk is fast, desperate. Like his own skin is burning, and only burying himself in her will put it out. He storms through the wide archway i
