Chapter 39

• THERON POV
• Ami's eyes were the color of summer skies, soft and stormy all at once. I watched the blush creep over her cheeks, her lips parted ever so slightly, her breathing quickening with every passing second. Her fingers trembled where they tangled behind my neck want clashed with hesitation. She wanted me. I could feel it in the way her body leaned into mine, yet I also saw the fear that hadn’t entirely left her. And I couldn’t risk her bolting again.
• I was halfway to abandoning restraint, ready to peel off her clothes and kiss her into oblivion, when the shrill ring of my office phone sliced through the moment. Just like that, the spell broke. A familiar frustration settled over me. This wasn’t the first time something at the company had dragged me away from her, and I was starting to believe I was cursed. I even had a suspect in mind.