Chapter 40 Flames Ii

• Heat prickled on my back, charging my body with a flush of goosebumps as the air in the room thickened with Ezra’s intense, unforgiving presence right behind me, a suffocating blend of tension and foreboding.
• A wave of paralysis swept over me. I couldn’t even move a finger. Taking a short broken gasp from my mouth, I gulped hard as the hair stood on my neck.
• I felt all that within seconds of his arrival and in the next second he had seized my upper arm, pulled me to my feet and turned me around to face him.