KADEN Savannah was shaking her head, scared. “Did you really think I wouldn’t know it was you?” I whispered against her lips. That wild-berry scent was already going from sweet to sour. “Sir... it was an accident...” “Were you trying to get my attention? Or did you think it’d be that easy to get rid of me?” “Ahhh!” she whimpered when the small block of ice touched the nape of her neck, her whole body jolting in visible spasms. A gasp slipped out of her mouth way too close to mine as I dragged the ice cube down her spine, leaving a wet trail on her skin. Every single reaction from Savannah burned itself into my brain, my gaze going feral. “Let. Your. Power. Out,” I growled over her parted lips, her face scrunched up from the cold and from the fear of my whims. When my hand slipped

