Nicholas’s mouth was hot on mine. His body pinned me to the door.

I attacked his lips with my own, eager to burn away any trace of that mystery woman who had been there before me today. Lilliana? Olivia? It didn’t matter who. My mind was flooded with angry, scalding

jealousy.

Maybe Nicholas couldn’t be mine forever, but here, for the duration of this moment, I was staking my

claim.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pushed my fingers through his hair.

He coaxed my lips open. It was no great feat.

When his tongue slipped into my mouth, I was ready and waiting for it.

As our tongues tangled, his hands wandered. He’d started at my hips, but in an impatient instant, his fingers slipped under the waist hem of my shirt and teased at the bare skin of my stomach.

me exactly one half–second

away all over again.

my sides. I shivered, even as I burned. His touch was hot like a brand. I was laying my claim

flat

brushed against the bare side of my breast,

I said, a moan and a

inch, and he cupped more of

I said again, this time as a

did was

to give up

low and rough. “You want me all to

in the circle of his arms, with his lips brushing

moan. At the same moment, his hand shifted, and

the last time I had been touched like this – and wanted it. I was desperate for him. For more. For all he would give

to lose

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