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.

exactly one half–second before he

all

a brand. I was laying my claim on him, but he was just as

beneath it. His palm laid flat against the side of my ribs. Then, inch by

brushed against the bare side of my breast, and I gasped.

said, a moan and a plea both.

and he cupped more of my

I said again, this time as

mine, even when all we did was breathe on each other. I

give up

he said, voice low and rough. “You want me all

to admit like this, safe in the

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

felt so good. I couldn’t remember the last time I had been touched like this – and wanted it. I was desperate for

ready to

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