Extraits

“None of this…none of this…whatever you call this.” She waved her hand to encompass everything. Kissing. Taking her blood. Seducing her. Ordering her around. Setting perimeters. All of it.

His black gaze never left her face. His eyes as still as those of a leopard scenting prey. Avid. Burning. Intense. He took her breath away with his eyes. Hypnotized her. Cast a spell over her.

Tempest pulled her gaze from his, from the seductive, black velvet trap. “And stop that, too,” she said decisively, despite the fact that he made her hungry for him.

“Stop what?”

“Stop looking at me that way, it’s definitely out. You can’t look at me that way. It’s cheating.”

“How am I looking at you?” His deep voice dropped even lower, the cadence soft and husky. Mesmerizing. “Okay, that’s out, too. No talking in that tone of voice,” she declared staunchly. “And you know very well what you’re doing. Act normal.”

His white teeth gleamed at her, nearly stopping her heart. “I am acting normal, Tempest.”

“Well, then, that’s out, too. No acting normal.”

“She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.”