Chapter Seventeen
Awake or asleep, Kai was the most compelling man Nicole had ever known. Even his snore was kind of fascinating, a soft wheeze, like the wind whistling through cracks in the siding. But mostly it was the magnificence of his body at rest, how he still radiated vitality even when he was unconscious. The firelight flickered across his chiseled muscles, turning his skin a warm gold.
He’d pulled the blanket over most of his body, but his chest and shoulders were uncovered. She noticed a raised scar on his chest, and a small tattoo of a jagged mountain on his upper arm. Rocky Peak?
That thought made her heart twist. Kai loved this place, even though he’d left and stayed away so long. It was clear to her how much Rocky Peak was a part of him.
And the Summit Group was trying t
