3 Olivia sat, conflicted. No one had ever spoken to her that way. Blue’s voice affected her on a sensory level, but his words…they reverberated at a cellular level. Every part of her body heated at his statement. Her response felt alien. The clothes she wore felt tight and restraining. Over a man. Really, Olivia? Pull it together. She didn’t get this excited when her ex went down on her. To feel or even react the way she responded to Blue was unnatural. She always kept her cool. You’re traumatized by your experience. He’d saved her. That’s why the feelings were there. She was grateful, it wasn’t some silly overactive attraction. No, the pull she felt towards Blue was caused by feelings of gratitude. It wasn’t because his savage beauty resembled a warrior from a bygone era. Or because the

