Chapter 204
~ Navine ~
Looking at Hailey in that towel brought back every vivid memory from last night, not in fragments but in a continuous, burning reel that replayed with uncomfortable clarity behind my eyes.
The way her body had felt beneath my hands, warm and responsive and impossibly soft, yielding and arching in ways that had driven me half insane with need. The smoothness of her skin, the heat of it, the way it had flushed under my touch. The curves I'd mapped with my fingers and mouth, slowly and thoroughly, memorizing her like territory I intended to return to again and again. The sounds she'd made when I was inside her, breathless and broken and completely unguarded.
If Nathaniel wasn't standing right there, I would have crossed that room and taken her, consequences be damne
