Chapter 33

Briar’s POV

He wanted me.

I did not need to be told twice that he wanted me.

From just those few moments he had seen me, he was already aroused.

I watched as his nose flared slightly, a quick, subtle inhale that he clearly tried to suppress.

He didn’t think I’d notice, but I did. He could smell me, my arousal hanging faintly in the air between us.

Knowing he wanted me had spiked something within me.

Something that I had kept buried a long time ago after my affair with them.

No one have ever looked at me the way Kai was now. As if I was the only girl he wanted.

As if he could strip me with his eyes.

I gulped.

His eyes moved up to meet mine, and I swore they darkened.

"Briar..." His voice was low, husky, filled with something raw. The sound of my name rolling off his tongue made my breath hitch.

His Adam’s apple bobbed as he swallowed, the muscles in his throat tightening. My gaze caught on