Scandalous Box Set by Layla Valentine & Holly Rayner

Author:Layla Valentine & Holly Rayner
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-11-17T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Grace

There are too many sensations overwhelming me to focus on whether this is a bad idea or not.

Leon’s hand is warm and wrapped around mine. I can still feel his dark stubble rubbing against my cheeks, his lips sucking on mine, teasing me, and his hands carving lines down my sides. I can feel the way he looked at me in the restaurant—before I told him about my arrangement with Sebastian. He looked at me like I was precious, special, something to be cherished.

It’s not like I’m some wounded woman who has never known love. I’ve had nice boyfriends in the past and a great father figure, but the way Leon looked at me felt different.

It’s the same way he is looking at me now.

He’s a few steps ahead of me, leading me down the street in the direction of his apartment, and I’m almost jogging to keep up. When he turns and looks at me over his shoulder, his blue eyes are stormy. Blue like the night sky rather than the day. His mouth turns up in a smirk, the dimple in his right cheek pressing in, and I feel like I could run a marathon to get to his apartment, high-heeled shoes be damned.

“This is me,” he says, pulling me towards a set of stairs.

The building is brick and dated. Nothing like the all-glass tower I imagined.

“You live here?” I ask.

He unlocks the front door and pushes it open. “No, I’m just excellent at picking locks.”

“I mean, like…you live here all the time?” I roll my eyes and step into the lobby. It’s clean and updated, but nothing exceptionally nice. Mailboxes cover the right wall, stairs are to the left, and an elevator is straight ahead.

“I only have the one apartment,” he says, pressing a hand to my lower back and urging me towards the elevator.

His fingers drum against me while we wait for the painfully slow elevator to make its way back down to the lobby. Anticipation bubbles out of me in the form of an incessant toe tap, and Leon leans down and presses a kiss to my temple before whispering against my skin.

“We could take the stairs, but I might find it difficult to climb stairs and ravish you at the same time.”

His words send a shiver through me, but I try to suppress it, keeping my face unaffected. I lift a shoulder in a shrug.

“It’s a skill few men have mastered.”

He slips his hand from my lower back to my hip, squeezing the soft flesh there. “Is that a challenge?”

The thought of the two of us falling upwards, tangled in one another, is almost enough for me to grab Leon and sprint for the stairs, but just as the thought crosses my mind, the elevator dings and the doors open.

We tumble inside, and thank goodness the lobby is empty because we are on one another before the doors even close. Leon presses a hand into my back, pulling me against his chest, and then walks forward until I’m wedged between his body and the metal wall—not a bad place to be.

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