Chapter Twenty One

Ace.

I sat back in my chair, still in shock at what I had just experienced.

I had wanted to stay with her. And hold her. The startling need had crackled through my chest. But I couldn't, it was bit fair to her or me, or Kaya who was lying in an hospital.

So I had forced myself to walk away. Now I stood in the middle of my study staring out of the window almost in a daze. My breathing was still uneven, my heart racing, and my body thrumming with the afterglow pleasure and heat. What the fuck just happened?

I had fucked so many women in my life, all as beautiful and some even more beautiful than her, but none of those encounters even vaguely resembled what had just happened.

For fucks sake I had unraveled like a dropped old movie reel. It was the closest thing to a miracle I had ever experienced in years.

What was it about her? Why did she have this effect on me?

I had to get rid of the turbulence inside me. With a shuddering sigh, my gaze went over to the tray with a bottlebof aged w