Forbidden Taboos : Steamy dark stories
She was a finalist too, but she couldn’t travel home because of his threats.
Only the security lights glowed. She walked the path to Hawthorne Hall like a criminal returning to the scene of the crime.
As instructed, his office door was ajar, a sliver of warm lamplight spilling into the hall.
She knocked once.
“Enter.”
Gabriel Thorne stood at the window, back to her, silhouetted against the city lights beyond the glass. He wore only black trousers and an open white shirt, sleeves rolled to the elbows. The room smelled of cedar, old books, and something darker—arousal, perhaps, and the faint scent of an aphrodisiac.