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It’s only when the door clicks shut that my awareness returns and I realize I’m still half naked.

But I’m so stunned by his warning, I can’t move.

What just happened?

ChapterFourteen

Dante

As I enter my penthouse apartment and the automatic lights come on, I think of what I said to Serenity for the millionth time since I walked away from her.

I’m not sure if my words sounded like a warning a predator would give its prey when it’s showing mercy, or like a prelude before the chase to give the prey a chance to run.

Regardless, I meant every word. She must never see me again, and I mustn’t see her either. Tonight needs to end the fascination once and for all.

If you play with fire, you will get burned.

Nobody knows the truth in that saying more than me.

I’m the guy who will take the risk when he knows the consequence that awaits him, or will walk on the edge of the cliff erring on the side of danger to get what he wants.

It’s a fearless way to exist that helps you become ruthless. In the same breath, nothing prepares you for the potent effect of the burn, the consequence, or the fall when things don’t work out the way you thought.

That’s what happened to me tonight.

What happened between Serenity and me was exactly what I wanted. But I didn’t expect to feel like this after. Torn, conflicted, and so aroused my skin is blazing with the type of fire that will never stop burning.

I don’t know how the fuck I managed to walk away from her. I seriously don’t fucking know.

It’s taken me twenty minutes to get home, and the question has been ringing through my mind.

I wanted her. God knows I did. There was never a question about that, and I would have taken her right there against the wall without hesitation.

I’ll admit that moment when she writhed against my grasp, rubbing her delicious pussy on my face, I wanted Serenity Bell more than anything in my life.

But I stopped myself because I had to.

A snapshot of where taking her would lead me popped into my mind, and I saw disaster.For her.

I’m the enemy she must never know. A man who’s planning to kill her evil bastard of a father. I stopped myself because I wanted her to remember me the way we were in that moment. Not what’s to come.

I head upstairs to my bedroom, take off my clothes, and go in the walk-in shower of my en-suite.

Instead of my usual lukewarm shower, I set the temperature to cold, and when the water pours over me, I allow the coolness to soothe my mind and my aching dick.

I’m hard as steel. There’s only one way to relieve that. No, two. I’m just choosing the first option and calling it myonly.

Fucking another woman to get the one you want out of your head has never been my style, so I won’t start now. I wouldn’t be able to anyway because there’s only one woman I want.

Just because I chose the high road and decided to be sensible doesn’t mean I have to forget her.

I wish I could try, but the rebel inside won’t let me, so if I can’t have the real thing, this will have to do.

Closing my eyes, I savor the water flowing over me and imagine Serenity pretty face.

I imagine what I would have done with her next if I hadn’t walked away.

I would have had her on her knees, sucking my dick while I felt up her gorgeous tits.

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