Chapter 41

Sienna

My heart was still racing, my body betraying me despite my best efforts to ignore what had just happened.

Damon was too close.

And not only was he too close, but the tension between the two of us has been rising in a way that I could not find myself wanting to control or knowing how to do so in the first place.

The way his breath had brushed my ear, the way his voice had dropped into that dangerously low tone, it sent an unwelcome shiver down my spine. I hated how my body responded to him, hated how my stomach tightened in a way I wasn’t prepared for.

I was flustered, and no matter how much I tried to shake it off, the heat in my cheeks refused to fade. And I hated the fact that he saw it, despite him not saying a word about it. I knew that he was not blind. He could easily see it.

I busied myself with Isla, forcing my focus back on something I could control. I sat in the nursery, cradling her in my arms, feeding her while humming so