Chapter 120. You Tempt Me

Realizing her face had gone pale, he caressed her cheek with the back of his fingers. "Oh, my Zaad, did you get scared?" He tried to act oblivious to her plight.

She just moved her eyes down, on the verge of a panic attack. On and on, the flashbacks came to her mind.

A whimper escaped her lips when he suddenly held her chin and bobbed her head up. A painful knot formed in her throat, stretching the walls of her throat.

"Uh... no... I... please," she couldn't form a coherent sentence. Fear had overwhelmed her.

She tried to scoot away from him when he snaked his arm around the small of her back and kept her close to him. His brows twitched up and down in quick succession as, with deep, dark eyes, he looked at her.

"You tempt me, Sheharzaad," he whispered.

He closed his eyes, cleared her neck of her hair by tucking it away, and inhaled her scent. His lips pressed against her slender neck, making goosebumps arise on her whole body. In the silent car,