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“How are you holding up?”

“I’d say that’s a shitty question.” He glanced up at the gray sky, avoiding eye contact.

“You dropped a bomb on me last night, Saint. And then you expected me to keep quiet.”

“I couldn’t risk Elijah knowing.”

“Don’t ever doubt my intentions when it comes to you. Do you understand me?”
She clutched the silk sheets between her fingers, her wrists red from where the leather had bit into her skin. “Yes,” she whispered, her voice almost inaudible.
“You’re my cellist,” I rasped against her ear, “my obsession…my requiem.”

“You spread those thighs of yours, your pussy dripping while you pant for me to fuck you—yet, now you say you allow me to be inside you?”
“Elijah—”
“There’s a difference between allowing something and wanting it, Charlotte.” My back hit the wall, and he cocooned me. “A huge motherfucking difference.”

“Does she know?”
I shifted. “She knows what she needs to know.”
“That’s a shitty answer.”
“To a shitty question.”
“I’m serious, Elijah.”
“And so am I.” The room seemed to get smaller with every passing second. “My past is just that. Past. Charlotte is my present. My future. There’s no need to confuse one with the other.”

Are you ready for more Elijah?

ELIJAH'S POV:

Saint was a smart man, like me. There was no puzzle we couldn’t solve. No problem we couldn’t fix. And that’s precisely what I’ve been doing until now…fixing a fucking problem and ensuring I protect that which I had claimed ownership of years ago.

Charlotte.

I acted on my most vulnerable instincts, and now I stood on the brink of ruin with no hope of being saved.
Not by him.
Not by anyone.
Elijah lied.

It's that time! Here's the first sneak peek.

...my life forever changed because of one man who came like a thief in the night, snatching me from my world and forcing me into his. A man who, despite my inhibitions and instincts, had me falling into his arms as if it were the only place I belonged.