Chapter 20 Connected

• His lips on mine almost swallowed me whole again. The room wasn’t much different from the one next door where I slept. I didn’t know when the idea of coming to this room had seemed like a good one, but now that I was here, feeling like nothing existed except the warmth of his body, I didn’t know how to stop.
• Dante could completely unravel me, touching the places that ignited me, kissing my neck, and moving lower. The bed was huge, but too small for the two of us. This man knew how to drive a woman crazy in bed; he was experienced. That had made me wary at first.
• It had been months since anyone had touched me like this. No one but him had ever touched me like this. It was hard to open up, even a little, to allow any guy to get close to me, especially since I was pregnant with another man’s child. A man who had already killed one of my suitors.