BAD REPUTATION
she told him angrily, “You think you can just show up and take control of my life. Make me more passive. But I’m not interested in being passive or docile. I’m not interested in being managed or accommodating you or your bad manners in any way.”
She wouldn’t like it if she knew he found her so appealing right now, Stefan thought. She wouldn’t like it if she knew how much he wanted to touch her. How much he wanted to cover her mouth and drink her in, tasting her, taking her, making her melt.
He could make her melt.
He could.
He could do it now, too. Even when she crackled and burned. It’d be easier now, when she was on fire, her temper stirred, because anger and passion were so very close, an