Chapter 114 Dirty Acts

• When lust and desire take control, you do the dirtiest things.
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• I had been avoiding Alex however I could, phone calls ignored, his knocks met with silence, my footsteps vanishing up the stairs before the maids could usher him in. I clung to distance like it could erase the heat of that kiss. As though shutting my door could somehow close off the memory of my mouth pressed to his, of his hands on me, of how willingly I'd melted into him.