KAEL’S POV
I felt her body relax against mine, just for a second. Just enough for me to know she wasn’t resisting me.
That was all it took.
My hand instinctively found the small of her back, gripping her firmly as I lifted her with ease, shifting her onto my lap. Her gown rustled as she settled against me, her legs on either side of mine, her warmth pressing into me in ways that sent a surge of hunger through my veins.
I knew it then, no, I had known it from the very first moment I laid eyes on her. This was what I wanted. This moment. This feeling. Her in my arms, her lips against mine, her breath mixing with mine as if she belonged to me.
And the way she was responding to me? The way her hands clutched at my shirt, the way her lips parted beneath mine, meeting my urgency with a desp
