Chapter 86

Her breathing’s changed—softer now, deeper. The kind that happens when she’s turned on and trying to pretend she isn’t. I can picture her perfectly. Back pressed against a wall, lips pursed in that half-annoyed, half-aroused way she does when I get under her skin. Probably still dressed in whatever office thing she wore to work today but is thinking about stripping it off now.

“You, mister,” she f