For a second, Roxie squeezed her eyes shut. She ignored the man still holding her and the beat of the music around her. For the first time since entering the club, she felt cold but also too hot. Her body oscillated between shivering and sweating, but maybe that had nothing to do with the temperature in the place and everything to do with the man standing behind her.
“Turn and face me!” Elias demanded just then, his voice sharp, making her flinch before she did as she was told more out of old habit than her willingness to face the man.
Her heart was firmly lodged in her throat. Roxie wasn’t even surprised and barely registered that the man she’d been trying to escape just seconds before had pulled back as though she was suddenly a hot piece of coal he wanted nothing to do with. Smart ma
