Chapter 64

• Nicholas found his gaze locked onto her wide eyes. Her face tilted, lips parted in frozen shock. And then he saw the color creep over her cheeks and her throat move, and the compulsion to cover her parted lips and kiss her so thoroughly that she couldn’t stand sent a rush of heat flooding through him. Because, in that brief moment of triumph, Nicholas' strong suspicions were confirmed. His mouth curled into a slow smile.Caroline's attraction to him was still there. He could practically taste it, and he was going to use it to his advantage.
• A warm beat echoed in Caroline's head. She didn’t know if it was shock at her son’s daredevil antics or being trapped in Nicholas' stare that was causing it. At that moment, all she knew was that he was gazing at her as if he wanted to eat her whole. She was brought back to her senses by her son, merrily jiggling between his parents’ crushed bodies, oblivious that he’d been nanoseconds from a fractured skull, waving his arms around and smacking her in the face.
• "Charlie," she chided, disentangling an arm from Nicholas' hold to gently take her son’s wrist. Charlie grabbed her hair with his other hand. Before she could remove it, Nicholas took the offending hand.