SERA
“Sera.”
My breath hitched.
It was just my name. Two syllables. But the way he said it… like a prayer he’d been holding in his mouth all day. Like he wanted to swallow me with it.
I closed my eyes, fingers gripping the phone tighter. The rest of the world, Jared a few rooms away, the cool draft of the AC, even my own conscience faded.
“Mm,” I exhaled before I could stop myself, a quiet, involuntary moan melting off my lips like honey.
My thighs clenched instinctively.
Knox chuckled. That deep, knowing sound that slithered into my core and curled up there like it owned me.
“Missed that sound,” he rasped. “Didn’t think I’d get it so soon.”
“Knox…” I whispered, already unravelling. “You can’t keep sending me stuff like that. If Jared had seen it…”
“But he didn’t,” Knox said cal
