I stared at him. Was he severe? Speak about combined messages. Not that I cared in regards to the costume in any means.

I grabbed a bunch of garments earlier than I stepped again into the altering room and took off the costume. “Inform me, is cut up character dysfunction one thing that runs in your loved ones?”

I might hear his low chuckle from backstage. “No, we acquired a few megalomaniacs, although.”

I smiled. No less than he had a humorousness. “Narcissistic tendencies—yeah, that most likely checks out.”

For the following half hour, I attempted all the things on, from T-shirts and summer season clothes to denims, shorts, and underwear—which I didn’t current to Alex.

He was the proper gentleman—if he wasn’t on the telephone. Although his eyes instructed a narrative of their very own, his phrases and actions had been completely acceptable.

Tame.

Managed.

Once I had chosen what I wanted to outlive for the following couple of days, I wearing my previous garments after which left the altering room.

“Don’t you need to put on among the new garments,” Alex requested whereas trying me up and down.

I shrugged, feigning nonchalance whilst my heartbeat quickened. Having his sole consideration on my physique and my garments was unnerving. “Garments are garments. What issues is what’s beneath.”

As quickly because the phrases had been out of my mouth—and I noticed his eyes darken—I knew they had been a mistake.

He tugged me shut—breaking the no-touching rule. “Is that an invite?” His voice was low and horny, and he regarded like a black panther, able to assault. “As a result of I’d love to search out out what’s beneath.”

I wrenched away, pulse-pounding.

This man was harmful in additional methods than one. His wealth and energy had been weapons he wielded with out thought, however his dominance and a spotlight had been intoxicating.

He laid his hand on the again of my neck and squeezed, his eyes boring into mine.

My coronary heart thrummed in my chest, and for the primary time, there wasn’t that preliminary worry in my response. For the primary time since earlier than being captured and held hostage, lust pooled deep in my core.

I couldn’t look away.

Couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t transfer.

It felt as if he was bypassing my protecting boundaries and staring proper into my soul, seeing the true me—the me from earlier than.

Fuck.

Then the left nook of his mouth twitched right into a deadly smile. He acquired me. Knew how he’d affected me.

“Attention-grabbing.”

As if the phrase broke the spell he had over me, I might all of a sudden transfer once more.

I loosened his grip from my neck, took a step again, and crossed my arms. “Why are you doing this?” I demanded.

He gave me a one-sided shrug.

“You mentioned you didn’t like me, so why do you have a look at me like this?”

He shrugged once more.

However the way in which he was taking a look at me made me really feel like an insect below the microscope. Or a riddle he was attempting to determine.

I waved a hand on the piles of garments. “Thanks for the garments.”

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