~Ryder~ I freeze with my fingers hovering a mere millimeter above her wet, warm flesh, while I try to make sense of what just happened. The primal, roaring urge to take her, to completely possess her and strip away every last bit of her defiance, grinds to a crashing, agonizing halt. I stare down at her, my chest heaving as I fight the furious tide of my own arousal, trying to process the absolute shock of what she just did. “Romeo!” Lila shouts again, her voice louder this time, directed straight at the surface of the two-way mirror on the wall. She is trembling beneath me, her eyes wide and flashing with a volatile mixture of fear, triumph, and lingering desire. Before I can even open my mouth to demand an explanation, the heavy security door clicks open and swings wide and Nico Thorne steps into the room carrying a thick, black wool blanket in his hands. He moves directly between us, using his body as a shield to block my view of her as he drapes the fabric over her bare, s
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