✨EXCERPT: WHEN HEARTS UNRAVEL by @authorvictorialum releasing October 10th!
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Rex’s jaw works. His hand curls into a fist, his arm trembling from restraint.
I don’t know what comes over me.
Maybe it’s the faint sheen of moisture gathering in his eyes, or the way his breath throttles out of him like he’s ashamed.
Unbidden, I place my hand over his.
He freezes, and I jolt from the barrage of sensations from that tiny point of contact. It’s like being hit by lightning and surviving to tell the tale.
Quickly, I let go, but he snags my fingers with his. My pulse roars in my ears. Why am I touching him? I shouldn’t touch my patients.
“You’re playing with fire, Olivia,” he growls.
My breath catches, the raspy, sinewy undertones of his voice coiling between my legs.
“L-Let go of me.”
Abruptly, he loosens his grip.
Blood rushes back into my fingers, a thousand pinpricks exploding in my nerves. He fans the flames by skating his thumb over my palm, then moving to my inner wrist.
“You don’t want the bomb to explode, Olivia. Don’t test me.”
But I do. I want to face the bomb head-on. Pick at it. Disarm it. Or maybe I want it to incinerate me.
I swallow, my mind dizzy, my lungs seizing like they can’t draw in enough oxygen.
He swipes his thumb across my pulse again, and I watch those beautiful eyes of his darken, like he can tell how fast my heart is beating for him.
What the heck are you doing? This is completely unprofessional, Olivia. You know better.
I snatch my hand away.
His gaze drops to my lips. My lungs stop working.
I’m thrown back to that night at Mystique again, except this time, he’s within touching distance.
Kissing distance.
What would it feel like to be kissed by the prince of pleasure?
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