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"Take off your clothes," Victor demands

My heart stops

"What?"

"Sarai, take off your clothes" He pulls me up from the chair by my hand I try to wrench it away fro my clothes off! Why would you ask ht across the left side of his face

He grabs ht you this far now do as I say and take off your fking clothes"

His uncharacteristic use of that vulgarity shocks me into coain,fro my hand from his "But not in front of him"

Victor takes me by the wrist and walks with me past Niklas and toward the entrance to his roo I want to see," I hear Niklas say just before Victor shuts the door

I already feel nakd standing in the wide open of Victor’s spacious ocean-view rooer as long as possible, drag it out so that e his mind or at least tell me what this is all about, but he wastes no more time And he doesn’t let me waste any more of it, either

"Take the it overmy bare brsts I drop the shirt on the floor beside my feet He watches me, not with lust in his eyes, but with determination I lean over and slip out of ht up to me

I hesitate The space between us is about two feet but it feels like two inches I don’t want to take off my panties, not because I’m afraid of him, but because…I’m embarrassed for him to see me that way

When he steps up closer and doesn’t deh of relief

"Lay down on the bed," he says and that breath is sucked right back into ain before it can expel coh, he wraps his hands around ainst his expensive designer comforter

I s a lump in my throat

As I start to raise my arms to my brsts to cover them, I feel Victor’s war He raises ins to feel every inch ofthe underside ofhis way to my brsts

His eyes catch mine briefly

Maybe he wanted to ease lance, but all it did was ht sears throughonly a s entirely different

I picture his ht away and I watch hiressively, his hands move across every inch of my body Furtively I inhale the scent of his skin, his natural scent that somehow makes me want him to kiss oes for ers around the flesh using both hands And then the other thigh

When his fingers touch the sensitive skin of asp

He stops He looks up at me, across the nakd landscape of , but this tiaze isn’t to ease my fear of hi on me, so close to the most intimate part of me I wonder why he would study my face at all, why he wouldn’t takehis hands away as I expected him to do But instead, he leaves the the flesh at the bend of e of ht want to do

He pulls away and abruptly flipsexactly?" I ask, adapting to the quick change of the moment

He pulls my panties down halfway over my butt cheeks, moves his hands here and there in the sa for so"

"What?" I ask

Then suddenly he stops, his thu in a circular ht butt cheek, on the back part of eneral area where I re device," he says "You have one"

I try to twist my head around to see him better, but it hurts my neck

The flash of a silver blade catches limpse the knife in his hand and start to twist ht of his hand on the s withto do?!" I shriek

"I have to cut it out"

"Victor, no!"

I thrash aroundto roll over ontofully on top of me, and his closeness, the warmth of his breath on the side of my neck, takes my breath away My entire fra into his body as his voice dances along the shell of entle," he whispers and th of my spine

He presses himself into me from behind, his hardness obvious behind the thin layer of his pants that separates us

"I promise," he says onto my ear "But it has to come out Do you understand? Do you trustagainst hi sensation between h my back and into my eyelids