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Still re the pleasure of his kiss earlier, her body screa Klaxon of nos

No closer to a verdict about how to handle the rest of the night, she stalled in frozen indecision

Her door was opened and Demyan bent toward her in his too-darn-sexy dinner suit, his hand reaching toward her “Are you co?”

She fu it unbuckled after the second try

The knowing look in his dark eyes said he knehy she was so uncoordinated

“Don’t,” she ordered

The knowing glance turned into a smirk “Don’t?”

“You’re s the help of his hand

Ignoring her attempt to keep her distance, he put his hand around her waist, tucking her body close to his as they approached her building “I ahted by your company”

Heat arced between them and, that quickly, she remembered why after only three dates she was ready to break a lifetiinity

“I’m still not sure e’re here”

“You live here?” Amuse

The lack of a doorman was a bone of contention between Chanel and her mother If the older woht have considered , but the issue was in how it looked for her to live in an unpretentious, entirely suburbanite apartment complex

“I do not like the fact that the entrance to your home is so accessible This dark cove outside your door is not entirely secure, either,” Demyan complained as he took her keys and unlocked the door

She hadn’t quite decided if the action was some throwback to old-world char nature when he ushered her inside

Theyroo in that, right? The shut door If he’d wanted only to see her inside, he could have left her on the landing

“Would you like a drink or so?” Like her?

Was she really going to do this? Chanel thought maybe she was

“Not tonight” The words implied he planned to leave, but the way he stepped closer to her gave an entirely different

She didn’t reply, his proxi her breath just that fast For the first tian to understand how her nant by a man so very different from herself

Sex was a powerful force “Body chemistry is so much more potent than I ever believed” She sounded every bit as bewildered as she felt

“Because you have never felt it so strongly with someone else” There was no question mark at the end of that sentence

Chanel would take ue at the certainty in his tone if Demyan didn’t speak the absolute truth