Nina’s POV
I slipped into the apartment like I was committing a crime. Shoes in one hand, purse clutched tightly in the other, I eased the door shut behind me with a soft click. My heart was thudding so hard, it filled the silence like a drumbeat.
You disobeyed me.
His voice from this morning echoed in my head—deep, dark, soaked in promise and threat.
“And I’m going to punish you for it.”
I didn’t know if he’d been teasing. With Kane, it was impossible to tell. But my body hadn’t stopped reacting since. Every time I remembered the way his gaze had lingered on me, the smirk that tugged at the corner of his mouth... I felt that bloom of heat low in my belly, a pulse between my thighs that refused to go away.
I tiptoed down the hall, barefoot, quiet. I didn’t want to wake him if he was
