RED POV
Carlton’s body heat pressed into me like a furnace, pinning me flat against his heavy oak door.
His eyes were almost burning into mine, searching for something, anything that I was desperately trying to bury beneath the numbers in my head.
But I gave him nothing. Nothing to suspect of.
Suddenly, his grip on my jaw softened as his thumb slid slowly across the edge of my lip, creating a sudden wave of thick but slow passion bleeding into the space between us.
For a split second, his head lowered which made his breath brush warm against my neck as if he was about to consume me right then and there. As if I was the only this he could think of in this moment.
My heart gave away fast erratic thuds against my ribs at the thought of it.
But just as quickly as the heat came, it
