Unwanted Flutter

Elena glared across the table, her chest tight with burning resentment. Yet, underneath the heat of her anger, a different kind of warmth stubbornly pooled in her veins. She hated it. She hated that Dominic Sterling only had to sit there, effortlessly ruining the evening with his casual cruelty, to make her knees feel uncomfortably weak.

As the tense dinner finally concluded and they stood to le