Chapter 193

Emmeline instinctively arched into his touch, hooking one leg over his hip in a blatant invitation to get closer.

“I’m excited too,” she confessed breathlessly, struggling to keep her tone even as desire sparked low in her belly.

A dull throbbing ache was building between her thighs from being so close to him and seeing that undisguised hunger in his eyes. “But I wasn’t trying not to act on it. Moments like this are too precious to waste just sleeping. We might not get another chance like this.”

Zavian squeezed her waist roughly, his strong fingers digging into her soft curves just enough to steal her breath in a gasp of mingled pain and pleasure. “Then we’ll make sure we get chances like this again,” he vowed in a rough growl that seemed to reverberate through her very bones.

As she stroked along the line of his jaw with a trembling hand, their heated gazes locked in an intense clash of wills.

The air between them was thick and heady with the musk of u