A heavy silence filled the space between us, thick with something dark and unspoken. Theodore’s gaze sharpened, his eyes raking over me like I was something to be dissected and studied.
Theodore moved. Fast.
One moment he was standing a few feet away, and the next he was right in front of me, pressing a hand against the door beside my head. Trapping me with the sheer force of his presence.
"Your lover?" he echoed, his voice deceptively soft.
I swallowed, my breath catching. "Yes."
His fingers brushed along my jaw, a slow, deliberate movement that sent a shiver down my spine. His touch was barely there—too light, too teasing—but it set my nerves on fire.
"You expect me to believe that?" he murmured, lips so close to my ear that I felt the heat of his breath.
I forced myself to meet h
