Secrets of His Forbidden Cinderella by Caitlin Crews

Author:Caitlin Crews
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-10-09T12:46:07+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“I THINK YOU’VE forgotten that there’s also a third option,” Amelia managed to say, somehow not commenting on Teo’s supposed “good humor.” Though it was hard to get the words out through gritted teeth. And a jaw so tight she was worried it might shatter at any moment. “I could also do neither of those things. I could sit back down on this couch, ignore you and wait for you to tire of whatever game this is.”

“You could,” he agreed, but there was something far too dangerous in the way he said it. It shivered through her, far more intense than a mere dare. “But I’m a simple man, particularly here. If you are not functioning as a servant, I will only be able to recognize you as the woman who is to be my wife.” This time, he didn’t shrug. He stared at her in a kind of steady demand that made her...restless. “And I will act accordingly, of course.”

Amelia felt as if she’d cinched herself into something horribly tight. For a moment she wasn’t sure she could force a breath, and that restlessness made her itch. But she made herself stand still.

And she kept her voice cool. “I want to make sure we’re both really clear about the fact that you’re threatening me. With sex.”

She thought that might slap at him. Offend him, at the very least.

But instead, Teo smiled in that edgy way that had been making her pulse jagged since she’d jolted awake to find him standing over her, taking over her field of vision. For a wild moment she hadn’t been able to tell if she was asleep or awake.

There was no mistaking the fact she was awake now. He reached over and slid his hand over her hard, clenched jaw.

And then slowly, almost lazily, dragged his thumb over her lips.

Amelia felt as if she was the fire behind them, then. As if he’d stoked the flames—her—that easily, shaming her.

Or maybe she only wanted to be shamed. Because what she felt was a storm of sensation, galloping through her. Her nipples felt bright, hard. Her breasts were heavy. She felt something like chills running down her limbs, then sinking deep inside her until they formed a kind of tangle, too hot and too greedy down low in her belly.

“Do you feel threatened?” Teo asked her. Goading her. “Or do you feel something else entirely?”

“Everything you do is a threat,” she managed to say. What she didn’t do was pull away from him. “That’s a natural consequence of kidnapping and abducting someone, I think you’ll find.”

But his hand was still on her face, and she could feel herself shaking, deep inside. Like the tectonic plates that kept her upright—that made her who she was—were shifting whether she liked it or not.

“I think you are trembling, cariña. I think you are terribly, surpassingly hungry.” And somehow she couldn’t pretend, even to herself, that he was talking about food. “Hot and wet, are you not?”

“Of course not.” Her voice was barely more than a whisper.

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