Defying the Boundaries

POV: Valerie.

Gideon looks down at me with infuriating calm. The tension radiating off my skin does not seem to faze him in the slightest.

"I am not playing around." His voice holds a casual, effortless edge, completely denying the manipulative game he just orchestrated inside the sanctuary.

I glare up at his striking face, my chest rising and falling with hurried, angry breaths. The towering