BELLA
My breath hitched at the low tone, my body stiffening from where I was still wrapped around Kai's arms. Firmly, the voice repeated, the shudder that racked through my body accompanied by a tingle from the hand on my shoulder.
“Don't touch her.”
I felt the hand on my shoulder tightening as Kai's hold loosened, giving the stranger freedom to gently tug me away, causing me to stumble closer to him.
“Lemons,” I thought. “He smells like lemons.”
Slowly, my eyes abandoned Kai's slightly annoyed face, drifting over to the hand that squeezed my shoulder—it felt more protective than possessive—and trailing up the arm to settle on an oddly familiar face.
I hadn't seen him before, that was certain, but the resemblance he held to Luna Olive was a bit uncanny.
They looked a
