Chapter 56

• She exhales, his words foreplay to her already thrumming libido. He leans back and brushes a teasing kiss on her lips. He pulls back, triumph on his face. He quirks his eyebrows at her, glancing down to her chest and then back up. “Besides, Annabelle, your nipples are betraying your ploy to play hard to get.”
• What? She glances down to note that the tightened buds of her nipples are pressing tautly against her sweater in an all-out announcement to Nicholas of her arousal for him. Damn it!
• Nicholas stands abruptly, smiling brazenly at her before reaching out his hand to her. “Come,” he tells her, and all she can think is that she hopes to very soon, her body yearning with the desire for him to touch her again.