Chapter 0263

Nicholas’s mouth was hot on mine. His arms wrapped around my waist, holding me closely. I clutched

at his shoulders, early accepting his kisses, until the need for air forced us apart.

He rested his forehead against mine. “You have to change.”

“Nick,” I said. He was being ridiculous. “This dress is not revealing.”

“You look so sexy in it. I can’t stand the thought of Terry seeing you like this.”

I smiled a little. This dress was not flattering on me. I knew that. I looked okay, but out of fashion. I’d

worn more revealing clothes before.

I imagined a big part of Nicholas’s trouble was that he was attracted to me in anything. “You’d probably

be jealous even if I wore a potato sack.”

He didn’t argue. “I don’t like the way Terry looks at you.” His arms squeezed me closer. “Why don’t you

stay here, after all. Stay with Elva. Julian and I can snoop around Terry’s mansion. You don’t need to

endanger yourself.”

I shook my head. “You know I can’t do that. Even if I wanted to. I had such a poor showing in the last

event, that I can’t risk botching another. I need attend and do the best I can.”

“Terry won’t make it easy on you.‘

“I know that,” I said. “But I don’t have any other choice.”

Nicholas frowned deeply but he made no further remarks. Instead, he stepped back from me and turned

on the lights to the garage. Taking my hand, he led me through the various fancy cars until we reached a

black sedan with tinted windows.

opened the passenger door and helped me inside. Then he went around

were soft leather, the console black and impeccably clean. When Nicholas turned the key, the

with a confident purr.

and carefully navigated out

out onto the street, my nerves began to

tense posture and the way I couldn’t sit

cars were long gone and no one else seemed to use this road this time of night. The sun had set, and the road was dark. Nicholas clicked on the high

through the darkness, illuminating the road.

double yellow line, trying to collect my thoughts. Yes, I was a lamb

Julian would be there. And Susie and the other girls. If

so with a

me feel all that better. Terry was bold. He didn’t seem like the type that would

He had the ear of

to

I could tell from the way Nicholas’s hands

his knuckles white.

us. Nicholas lifted his foot off the gas. Slowly, he pulled onto the

seemed to lead to nowhere. He

“Nicholas?”

of desperation in his gaze.

the way down into the deepest parts

and I complied at once, leaning toward him. He leaned too, and caught

halfway.

us. But our need to hold each other overcame any obstacle. Nicholas buried his fingers into my hair. I clawed at his back, trying and failing to pull

tell where he ended

feel safe

separate us tonight. I knew that to be true. Somehow, I would have to be strong, depend on my physical training from Nicholas, and my mental lessons

ready.

I was frightened.

held Nicholas tighter.

seam of my lips. I opened willingly for his greedy tongue,

and our hands holding each other closer, I could almost forget about what was going to happen tonight.

about to surmount this stolen moment of closeness with this man I was so soft–hearted for. Nicholas and I couldn’t be together long term, but

nothing mattered but he and I and the pursuit of the pleasure only attainable from our

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