I cut myself off, panic flooding through me.
Devlin’s eyes flash. “Considering what?”
“Nothing.”
“Tell me what you were going to say.”
“It was nothing.”
“Stop playing games with me.” His voice is a threat.
“I’m not playing any games!” The words burst out of me, emotional, raw. “I have no idea how anyone could have come up with such bullshit because no one would believe it—”
This, somehow, is the worst thing I could have said.
Devlin’s hands slam down on either side of my head, caging me in.
His breath issohot against my face.
“It’s time to stop this charade.” His voice drops to a whisper. “I know you’re lying right now. I upset you at the rink this morning, and you decided to take revenge. Creative. But you’ve always been very creative, haven’t you?”
“Devlin—”
“So now I’m going to start making everything you promised me in your card come true.” His eyes are black, bottomless, burning. “And I’m not joking,Val. I mean it. Seriously.”
The rain pounds against the window. Thunder rolls overhead.
And I can’t breathe, can’t think, can’t do anything except stare into those dark eyes and wonder if I’m about to make the worst mistake of my life.
3
Chapter 3
Devlin’s lips press against the skin of my neck, and my entire body erupts in goosebumps.
“Are you nervous?” His breath is hot against my throat. “Your heart is beating so fast.”
The sensory overload is making my brain short-circuit—the heat of his mouth, the solid weight of him pinning me to the door, the rain hammering against the window.
Something reckless rises in my chest.
“I’m not nervous.”
The words come out breathier than I intended, but there’s a edge of defiance in them. A challenge.
Devlin goes still for a half-second. Then his mouth opens against my neck, and hesucks.
My knees nearly buckle.
“Oh that’s—” The sound that escapes me is mortifying, somewhere between a gasp and a moan.
He’s making me tremble, his tongue doing something that should be illegal, and then I feel it—his cock, hard and agressive, pressing against my hip through our clothes.
The realization hits me like lightning: Devlin Bower is aroused. Because of me.
My own body responds instantly, heat flooding south as my cock begins to swell.
Shame burns through me, hot and overwhelming, because there’s no hiding this, not with him pressed against me like this.
