Chapter 182

Zavian’s gaze raked over her body in a scorching perusal that made her shiver. “I prefer you when you are bold.”

He pulled her captured hand up once more, pressing the soft skin of her knuckles to his lips in a series of scorching, openmouthed kisses that had her breath hitching in her throat.

His tongue traced patterns of liquid fire along the sensitive skin while his teeth nipped at the delicate bones in a way that had her toes curling with pleasure.

Emmeline’s free hand fisted in the material of his shirt as she fought not to come utterly undone beneath his sensual assault.

“Your body drives me absolutely wild,” Zavian admitted, turning her hand over to trail a path of hot, open-mouthed kisses along the sensitive inner curve of her wrist. “It’s like I’ve got this insatiable hunger, and you’re the only cure.”

He looked up at her through thick, sooty lashes. “Seeing you like this, all flushed and tempting as sin, it’s torture of the sweetest kind. Like