MALIA
An eerie silence threatened to drive me crazy, but then he broke it in the last way I had expected him to. He laughed, hard and loud, filling the whole room with the warm sound. My chest vibrated, pressed against his, my heart beating faster. I froze in awe, but as soon as I realized the situation I was in, I wriggled immediately, trying to get out of his grip. “Let go.”
Instead of releasing me, he pulled me in tighter.
“Stop moving,” he growled, eyes stormy as they locked onto mine. “Unless you are prepared for the consequences.”
I froze.
It took a beat before I realized what he meant—or more specifically, felt what he meant.
Dio Mio!
I stiffened. Heat rose into my cheeks like someone had lit a fire under my skin.
“Then let me the f**k go, stronzo,” I hissed, and shoved off
