Embracing the Shadows

"What?" Sloane blinked, caught off guard by the sudden intensity in his voice.

Killian lowered his gaze, fingers slowly tightening around hers. "What I did to Monica—did it make you uncomfortable?" The words left him in a hush, as though he feared they might shatter between them.

"No. I told you, it was the perfume. Nothing else."

Yet Killian could not let it go. Her past in the Viper Special Forc