*Mia’s POV*I stood on the twenty-third-floor balcony of the penthouse Adrian had rented for the weekend, the night wind tugging at the thin silk robe I’d thrown on after dinner. Below us, the skyline burned with a thousand golden windows and the slow crawl of headlights. Music drifted up faintly from some rooftop bar. The air smelled like rain that hadn’t fallen yet and the faint spice of his cologne still clinging to my skin.Adrian stepped out behind me, bare-chested, only low-slung black pants hanging off his hips. He didn’t speak at first. He simply pressed his body to mine, chest to my back, and rested both hands on the railing on either side of me, caging me in.“You’ve been quiet all evening,” he murmured against the shell of my ear. “Thinking about what I said earlier?”I had been. All through the late dinner, the shared bottle of wine, the way his knee had pressed deliberately against mine under the table. Earlier, in the elevator, he’d leaned in and told me, low and rough,
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