“Did you really think I’d leave you down here with your head spinning, Ivy?”The heavy steel door of the safe room slammed shut behind Harrison with a loud, mechanical lock. He hadn't left for the city. He had locked his security detail on the other side of the reinforced corridor, and now he was standing in the dim light of the vault, his dark charcoal sweater already pulled off and tossed onto the floor, leaving him in a thin white undershirt that stretched tight over his broad, muscular chest.“Harrison…” I gasped, my fingers still clutching the unopened DNA envelope. My pulse spiked instantly, not from the sniper threat outside, but from the sudden, terrifying heat radiating off his body. “You said you had to leave—”“Fuck leaving,” he growled, his voice thick, heavy, and dripping with raw, primal authority.He crossed the room in three long strides, his heavy boots silent against the rug. Before I could back away, his large, calloused hand shot out, wrapping around my throat—not
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