“His confident amusement should have pissed me off, but it elicited an excited fluttering “in my stomach as he spoke. “I don’t think that will be a problem.”
He stepped as close as he could without touching me, and my body started to anticipate the contact he was withholding. I was incredibly aware of the tantalizingly slight space between us. His mouth was just shy of my ear, and his voice heightened the sensation of teasing proximity. “Never is a long time, Ella, and I am very patient.”
How he had made that sound so sexy was beyond me, but it sent a hot rush of excitement through me. My body thrummed with an electric pulse of possibilities that gave me a high I had never experienced before. It felt like a current was running between us and charging me up with this exhilarating fe
