Three

I regret looking at him almost immediately.

I’m suffocating. Heating up.

Ryker’s dark eyes meet mine, smoldering with an intensity that makes my breath hitch. There’s hunger there, a desire that wraps around me, tightening like a coil. It’s so intense that I wonder if any other man on this earth ever truly found me beautiful.

None had ever looked at me the way he does.

“You look beautiful,” Ry