Chapter 70

She was stunned. He could tell. Her body became as inflexible as a flagpole and she stopped breathing. He didn’t let her non participation deter him, however. His tongue dipped into her mouth, then withdrew, again and again.

Katherine let out a strangled gasp before she raised her hands to clutch his arms. He tasted of whisky and danger. An altogether intoxicatingly adult mix. Had he been drinking? She wondered. But the thought didn’t last long in her head as Jensen continued to explore her mouth.

She was aware of how hard Jensen’s chest felt against hers, how it made her breasts tingle and swell against her dress. His mouth was hard and ruthless, punishing her and expertly seeking a response so that he could humiliate her some more. Katherine knew in some distant part of her brain exactly what was happening, but that part of her brain seemed to be disconnected from her body and her mouth.

“Kat,” Jensen whispered. As he spoke her name the fingers of one hand thread