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Inhaling a harsh breath, she turned toward Zeke and narrowed her eyes on the deo Oh how he fooled her with his sad story and changed ways Perhaps he had read hts of him and assumed she planned to act them out “Where in the elements have you taken me?”

He frowned “A store”

“Yes, I see that it’s a store” Smart ass “But—”

Not allowing her to finish and brushing past her, he grabbed the wrought iron handle and opened the door “You need new clothes, so we’re getting clothes”

She glared at his back, wishing she could conjure the fire element to set him aflame “I don’t knohat kind of witch you think I a in there”

Keeping the door ajar, he turned to her and cocked his head “Why would that be?”

“Because it’s a sex shop” She hated that her cheeks warmed under his hard stare “I don’t want sex toys”

He stared at her for a moment, dead serious, then his eyes crinkled “I realize you’re not in the er up the side of her corset “I thought this attire suited you and that you would want to get another” He arched an eyebrow “A?”

As he withdrew his finger, she gulped Bless the eleered on her bare skin and burned into her soul “Yes, a new corset I want that” Without another word, since her lih the door of the shop

However, when she faced a rooround indeed—the increasing heat in her cheeks had nothing to do with Zeke’s touch, but the aardness of the moment

Not to say the naughty items appalled her, but she had always been a romantic at heart Soft, sensual touches aroused her h stuff, even if she’d only fantasized of romance

Layton had always been uy He never cared if she received pleasure and siasm, only of his It hadn’t always been that way At first, he’d been sweet and she believed for a while that he did love her

Now she knew better

A sudden nudge on her elbow broke her away frohts of a crappy ex-boyfriend When she glanced over her shoulder, Zeke gestured toward the back the rooentle smile “It’s this way”

Following in behind him, she passed by the salesman who stood behind the dark wood desk and the warlock s away fro in front of her, pondering his intriguing past