All he was asking was to be hisfriend,but the way he said it turned the word into something else. Something darker and more terrifying. Something forbidden but oh so very...tempting.
Fire, Andie! He’s the most dangerous kind of fire there is, and we’re the type to run away from such fire, not play with it!
She jerked to her feet...at the same time his phone buzzed, and something flashed over his sinfully attractive features. He must be expecting the call...but instead of answering his phone, he also rose to his feet, and her heart started twisting itself in knots.
They were about to part.
Weren’t they?
Andweirdlyenough, the thought...hurt.
“You’ll have to be on your own from here.”
His voice was tight, but she couldn’t tell if it was because he hated having to say the words...orhated having to leave her
Stop it, Andie! You’re imagining things, and it’s not helping! So just stop!
She dragged air into her lungs in an effort to clear her thoughts. He seemed to be waiting for her to say something, so...
“I’ll be fine, thank you.”
“Let’s hope that’s true.”
He suddenly started towards her, and her heart began to race. “Um—” She wanted to tell him to stop advancing, but instead she found herself backing away. The room seemed to have shrunk in a blink. It was suddenly hard to breathe, and—oomph!
Andie found herself trapped between the wall and his body, his palm pressed flat against the textured panel beside her head while his other hand caught her chin. His scent wrapped itself around her like a cage, his heat enveloping her body like invisible chains.
He slowly tilted her face up, but she refused to meet his gaze.
“You don’t want to look at me?”
She shook her head, not trusting herself to speak.
“Why not?”
Instead of answering, she tried to break free, but this only made his grip tighten ever so slightly, his hold on her gentle but unbreakable at the same time. It was like being captured by someone who could snap her neck or stroke her cheek in a blink, whichever he was in the mood to do.
“I’m not going to hurt you,koukla mou.”
Yeah right.
“I simply want to say goodbye—”
Yeah right x 2.
“—and make sure you do not forget me.”
His words made her panic, and she pressed her hands against his chest, intending to shove him away—
Oh.
It was her first time to touch a man—any man—this way, and she was startled by the muscled hardness of his body under his shirt. She suddenly felt as if she had crossed a line, and there was no going back from here—
Oh no.
He was suddenly pulling her close.
Closer and closer and closer.
