Chapter 80

• She tilts her head and purses her lips as she studies him back. “I wanted…” her voice is quiet, unsure when she speaks. The small smile playing at the corners of Nicholas’s lips gives her the surge of confidence she needs to continue. Knowing he wants her. Knowing that he desires her and wants more of whatever this is, emboldens her. Empowers her to finish her thought. “I wanted you to take me right there on the hood of your car.” She can feel her cheeks flush as she looks up at him through her eyelashes.
• He takes in a sharp breath, his lips parting, eyes clouding with desire. “Why, Ms. Tremaine,” he darts his tongue out to lick at his bottom lip, “we might just have to rectify that situation.”
• “Rectify?” Desire blooms in her belly at the thought.