CHAPTER 3: FIRES BLAZE ONKAT NEVER THOUGHT SHE’D SEE him again. Or maybe she only hoped she wouldn’t. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to see Gage. Damn it, she wanted to see every inch of him. But it was the most foolish thing she’d ever wanted. The man was a thug, a criminal. So why on earth she let him in when he showed up on her doorstep two evenings later, she had no idea. And why she continued to welcome into her home and into her bed every night after, she couldn’t fathom.
There was something about Gage; something beyond his chiseled body and dark, steely eyes. It made her forget too often that he was a dangerous man. In the hours they spent lying together in bed, their bodies spent, they would talk, and she would completely forget that she was lying in the arms of an evil man. He co
