Chapter 356

• She pulled her hand away, uncaring if people were looking. ‘There’s nothing starting here, Calix. I’m leaving.’
• His voice was low and lethal. ‘No. You’re not. If you stand up, so help me, I will pick you up and carry you out of here over my shoulder. Don’t think that I won’t. So we can do this here and now, or we can cause a furor of interest, give the paparazzi something to photograph outside, and do it back in my apartment.
• She had been standing when she sat down again slowly. She knew without a doubt that she didn’t want to be alone with him and that he wouldn’t hesitate to do exactly what he’d said.