...ELYSIA The word “yes” had barely left my lips when the world flipped upside down. One second I was standing in my childhood living room, shaking, surrounded by my terrified family and armed monsters.The next, a hard shoulder dug into my stomach and the floor disappeared. I yelped, hands flying to push away, but Adrian Valente had already tossed me over his shoulder like I weighed nothing. My hair spilled down his back, my hoodie riding up, cold air hitting my bare skin.“Put me down!” I screamed, kicking, pounding his spine with my fists.Crack.His palm landed on my ass, sharp and loud, the sting blooming instantly through the thin fabric of Lisa’s sweatpants. I gasped, heat flooding my face and, God help me, between my thighs.“Behave,” he growled, voice vibrating through his chest into my body. “Or the next one is on bare skin.” I froze, mortified, furious, terrified. He strode out of the house like he was carrying a bag of groceries, not a twenty-year-old girl who had just
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