Caleb did not move immediately.
He stood there, still as stone, his sharp gaze locked onto Sonia’s relaxed figure stretched across his bed, his mind working rapidly beneath the surface while his body remained deceptively calm, every instinct alert, every sense heightened.
She looked… deliberate.
Placed.
Like a trap set with care.
And Caleb had never been a man who walked blindly into traps.
Sonia shifted slightly, her movements slow, almost languid, as if she had all the time in the world, as if she already knew the outcome of this encounter, her lips curving into a soft, confident smile as her eyes lingered on him.
“Well?” she asked, her tone light, teasing, as she tilted her head just enough to let her hair fall over one shoulder. “Are you going to keep staring, or will you finall
