20 SAVANNA If I closed my eyes, I could still feel the sting of Dante’s punishment on my a*s and hear him chastising me. “You’re not to run away and hide from me again, princess!” Dante was hot. Every single thing about him made me feel like I was standing next to an electric heater. I’d never been with a man like him before. Even the scent of him got me worked up. Like it was specially blended, designed to get my p***y pulsing. I inhaled him like he was oxygen and I’d just surfaced from a tankless, deep, underwater dive. And damnit if he weren’t right. I felt secure when he was around. It didn’t make me feel any better about jeopardizing his election with the drama in my life. No matter how much I wanted to be in his. My time as a stand-in fiancée would be over soon. From the f

