Elena Carson I slide off his lap.He stands. Then he takes my hand and guides me toward his chair.“Sit.”I sit.He walks toward the bookshelf. I watch him reach for one of the books, then another. Killian turns around with an armful of textbooks.“Ready?”I look at him.“Maybe.”He smiles.“That's not an answer.”I grin.“It'll have to do.”He shakes his head and walks back toward me. He sets the textbook open on the desk in front of me and leans over my shoulder, one hand braced beside the page. His voice is steady, low, completely unhurried.“Classical conditioning. Stimulus, response, reinforcement. You already know this.”I nod, trying to focus on the words instead of the heat of his chest so close to my back. His fingers brush the edge of the page as he turns it, and the light contact sends a ripple straight down my spine.I shift in the chair. The short skirt rides higher on my thighs. He doesn’t react.He just keeps talking, calm, collected, as if I’m any other student and
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