Chapter 52

Brenda was on her way home, back to New York. Madrid had been a disaster; she never should have gone there. First, she failed at what she had set out to do and made a fool of herself, and then somehow, she made an even bigger fool of herself by playing with the devil and refusing to leave even after Adrien had warned her to. What had she been thinking—that she was somehow immune to his charms? She knew damn well that she wasn’t, so why on Earth had she stayed?

She shut her eyes as memories of the last two days flooded back into her mind. Memories that, while they made her cheeks warm up, made her heart freeze over with shame. She had come for one man and ended up in bed with another. Her heart skipped as more images flashed through her mind.

In a very long time, she had not experienced such heady and intense sex. What they said about French men was no lie, and Adrien had been proof of that. He had made her feel so good, taking her through levels and levels of ecstasy u