Chapter Fifty Three

GAVIN

Any trace of self-control I had left in me snapped the second Lara had looked at me like… that.

Her voice was low, her eyes burning into mine as she rasped out the words—“Then it’ll be our little secret.” That was it. My undoing.

She knew she had me. And there wasn’t a single damn thing I could do about it but give in.

This tension between us? It had simmered too long. Boiled beneath the sur