The Captive Heart
Strong arms wrapped around me, pulling me tight against a body I knew instantly, instinctively, even before the scent enveloped me, dark, smoky, sharp, a warmth that had become terrifyingly familiar.
Massimo.
My head collided with his chest, and his arm locked firmly around my waist, pressing me against him like he meant to fuse me there. I gasped, the air knocked from my lungs, my hands clinging to his jacket out of reflex, desperate for an anchor against the storm of panic consuming me.
It took me a heartbeat too long to realize what had just happened.
Mr Ugly—my captor, my should-have-been executioner was on the ground.
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