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"What don’t I know about you, Lola?" His eyes darkened for a second before he leaned down and kissed me softly His lips tasted like salted cherries and I was unprepared for the shock that ran through ue entered rabbed his neck to stop fro His eyes laughed intome I didn’t kiss him back, but I wasn’t able to stop hi I didn’t care who he was or what he wanted All I could think about was the fact that his lips were ona deep desire down into roaned involuntarily and he laughed as he studiedabout you, Lola" His fingers traced a line downto let you leave until I know everything"

And that’s when the ground beneath , like some sort of earthquake had hit Suddenly, I was afraid and totally aware of my environment I wanted to cry out in shame as I realized what I’d just done and felt I’d let him kiss me, intimately And for a split second I’d enjoyed it For a split second his intensity had overwhel uncontrollably Suddenly, it struck ht be the one person that Xavier had been trying to warn me about Maybe Prince Stephan was the one I should have been worried about Maybe Casper was nothing but an innocent distraction Maybe Stephan was the top dog Maybe that hy Casper and Violeta had not stopped Xavier fro but pawns to be ignored and discarded

"Tell me your deepest desire and I’ll create your darkest fantasy," Stephan said, and I didn’t kno to respond I didn’t want to respond, butabout?" I stuttered, my eyes wide I didn’t anticipate his swift reply or how quickly he would pull ain

"Spend one ith me Let me pleasure you and show you how I can make your fantasies come to life" His blue eyes looked dark with desire as he stared at me with such intensity that I wouldn’t have been surprised if bolts of fire had emanated from him All of a sudden I was taken back to what Casper had said to me in the room in Delmar when he tried to convincesimilar? Hadn’t he also wanted to take me on a sexual journey? And then I realized that this was the gaet oal Whoever ended up with h I wasn’t i to usurp Xavier Xavier had brought me here for a reason He trusted ame and not fall under Casper or Stephan’s spell Unlike Violeta Violeta had fallen for Casper and then gotten pregnant Only she had been discarded by all of them because Xavier had never really cared for her Not like he cared for ht This world was dark and scary And I wasn’t sure that I was prepared to play the game I was attracted to Stephan in a way I hadn’t been attracted to Casper It was easy for me to say no to Casper, but I kneould be harder with Stephan, even though I didn’t want hi about hi that et exactly who I was and what I was doing And that scared me I’d never been so inexplicably drawn to a od the first ti that week?" I asked softly, my voice a whisper as I answered hi this conversation Or rather, I couldn’t believe that I was having this conversation with hi hi a ith hirowled as he leaned toward rabbed my wrists and pulled the intoand I watched hi at the exposed parts of my breasts

I sed hard as I stared at his handso to be I knew exactly what my answer had to be if I wanted to find out all of his secrets and how far this gao I wished that I could speak to Xavier I wished that I could find out what he wanted from me "So what do you say, Lola?" He dropped hts with me?"

I nodded slowly and I watched as a wide smile spread across his face He looked away as a flash of excitement and power invaded his soul I looked down and tried to hide my smile I had him where I wanted hiinning of his wicked ithto succeed where Casper had failed He believed that I was going to capitulate to hiet Xavier He believed that his sex appeal meant more to me than my love for Xavier He had no idea that I had other plans He had no idea that he was the one as going to get played I just hoped that whatever gaht I knew that Xavier had to have known that I would be tested And I knew that he had faith into see what happened next