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The tiny judging eye remains red

The heat of hiainst the pale door is large and loo It drowns out my own A sensible person would say it’s no wonder I feel nervous with that hulking body behind me, but it’s the experience of that body that I’m desperate for Desperate to discover the es and dips The absolute need is one I haven’t felt before

I inhale and swipe it again

Red Still The colour of warning The colour to halt Stop End

“These things are so pesky,” I whisper shakily, glancing over ain “Daertips, landing flat on the floor

Before I can , the card balanced between his fingertips “So very pesky” His words are hot at h The skin beneath reacts like a ht I can barely breathe

But no, that’s not true as a breath flutters from my mouth Ha As I luxuriate in the press of his lips at ive hi the door as I reach for support and—

It opens The light has switched froreen

“Let’sa kiss to the skin behind ive the whole floor a show” His hand braces solicitously against the inally open door

“I—” I turnto my lips Almost in slow ly As his arain Lips slide, and tongues clash, this kiss taking on a savage edge as Alexander’s ar , and his kiss all coainst the nearest wall, his body following A frantic heat swiainst his chest, pushing his jacket froh of him

“Take it off” I s over a rapid breath, drowning in the sight of hi throat and bite Why is that even a thing I want to do? “Take it all off”

His low, dirty chuckle is like a lick of heat between s

“As the lady commands”

I’s his jacket the rest of the way fro it uncere in front ofan arc of illumination behind him

“Holland,” he growls, pullingme to breathe hiainsthis

“Such tiny hands” Catching my hands in his, he stares down at where we’re palers are suddenly linked, andas he presses them to the wall near my head “What should I do with you now?” The look in his eyes could burn whole buildings down