Off Limits
For five long, agonizing seconds, the silence of the penthouse stretched thin between us, the pale morning light illuminating the sharp, ruthless contours of his aristocratic features like a statue carved from stone.
"The identity of the threat actor remains an uncalculated variable," he whispered, his voice gravelly, raw, and completely stripped of his corporate CEO armor. He stepped around the kitchen counter, his long, heavy strides closing the distance between us until he was standing less than three feet away, his towering frame completely blotting out the light from the windows. He looked down at my smaller frame, his dilated pupils dark, wild, and burning with a fierce, possessive int