Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond

Chapter 0268

Even as I inhale the dreamy scent of leather and sandalwood, I'm fighting that urge to cave in as I perk my back out...my butt pushing back into his groin. He'll notice I haven't got my gun on me today.

A groan escapes him as he reaches higher, grabbing the jar and looking back at me.

"You don't play fair, do you Red." He chuckles slightly by my ear before placing the jar down on the worktop in front of my slightly exposed tummy. His thumb brushing against my belly button, those tingles erupting again. "Not if I can help it."

I turn, my back now pressing against the worktop's edge as I try to make a little room between us.

Now facing him, this close...I can appreciate just how handsome he is. His dark brown broody eyes hold a twinkle in them today, his jet-black hair styled perfectly as is his facial hair.

Up this close I only now notice that he has two slight dimples at the edge of his lower cheek bones, his facial hair almost hiding them...no wonder I have only just noticed them. Up until now he's been giving me cold looks from across a table.

of cologne he is wearing, something

to move aside, collecting the

oranges..." He leans into me, his nose seemingly smelling

"Huh?"

forward to see me. There is something poetic about the rim around his pupils becoming darker, almost black. He was being affected by our closeness

wasn't possible...he must be smelling the

leans in closer,

feel my eyes almost going cross eyed as I stare at his mouth, the words vibrating from his lower lip before he bites down on it. I swallow hard as goosebumps shoot across my

like a desire to touch him first...kiss him first. This was just a game, he was playing

he does

for this?" He asks as he takes a deep slow intake of air, his eyes

be so bad to be