30.Mortified

Bianca

I stood in the water, feeling cold and hot all at once.

The sight of the man before me made me tremble with want.

He was an alpha male, no doubt about THAT, I thought as I shook my head slowly.

His half-brother was good-looking, in a brooding way, but nothing to hold a candle to Liam O’Grady, I thought, staring at him.

He stood there, large and so…manly, his expression fierce. The decision maker. I knew that he ran all the gambling dens in the city, in Hollowford and in New Haven, while it was Finn St Just who handled the loan shark part of their combined business.

But O’Grady was moving closer to me along the edge of the pool, shedding his jacket and trousers as he approached, till he stood, magnificently naked.

I swallowed.

His demeanour made me tremble, and it had nothing to do with the cold.

The harsh cut of his jaw, square, and with the deep cleft in his square chin, defined a man who called the shots, the silver shafting through his black hair. Now he flexed his massive h