Annie's POV:
The instant I said it, images flashed through my mind.
A dark room.
Scorching body heat.
A pair of gold eyes burning in the moonlight.
Alexander's face hovered in the darkness, his breath carrying the bitter black-pepper and scorched-pine odor of the aphrodisiac. His hands held my waist; his mouth found my neck; his teeth grazed my skin.
My body remembered the pleasure before my mind could stop it.
Heat pooled low in my belly, and my legs weakened. I hated that my body still responded to him after everything that had happened.
No. Whatever my body remembered, I couldn't let it expose the truth.
I bit my lip hard enough to taste blood. I forced the images out of my head.
Now was not the time.
Alexander was still watching me.
His gaze stayed on my face for a long tim
