Scarlett
His breath scorched across my cheek like molten lava.
I swore the side of my face turned scarlet, burning all the way down to my neck and ears. I kept my expression unreadable, though my skin betrayed me with every pulsing vein. Lucien stood so close I could feel the controlled heat radiating off him.
I didn’t answer right away. I looked down and said softly instead, We need to talk. Alone.”
His eyes flicked sideways. Alexander was across the room now, consoling a wounded Faye like she hadn’t just been publicly humiliated. Good for him. Let him hold his precious disaster.
Lucien gave me a single nod.
Like ghosts we slipped through the side door of the banquet hall and proceeded up the marble stairwell towards the presidential suite. Every clack of my heels soun
