#Chapter 45: Conquests

Kayla The kiss started off as a tentative peck, a brief moment to subdue the rumors and nothing more. But it quickly turned into so much more than that. Before I could even wrap my head around what was happening, Nicholas’s mouth was suddenly moving against mine with an undeniable fervor. The heat that pulsed through me sent electric currents coursing through my entire body, and my knees trembled dangerously as his hands dug into the small of my back. Then, he was pulling me closer, so close I could feel the steady rise and fall of his warm chest against mine. The mating mark on my neck pulsed in time with our tandem heartbeats, a thrum that sent ribbons of electric heat curling through every fiber and muscle of my body. For a moment, I forgot everything. The party, Rebecca, the charade we were putting on. It all disappeared as his lips claimed mine in a way that felt far too natural, far too right. My hands, seemingly of their own accord, slid up