Chapter 71

REESE

The knock on my office door couldn’t have come at a worse time. Valeria was under me, her nails digging into my back as I tried to pull out in a desperate rush. But it was too late. A rush of panic surged through me as I came inside her, the realization crashing down on me like a tidal wave.

I should have pulled away sooner. I knew it. But the way her body tightened, the sound of her voice breathless in my ear—it was impossible to stop.

Shit! What had I done? And we didn't even use protection. We were so lost in each other, in the raw need that burned between us, that all logic flew out the window.

The room, which had been so filled with the heat of our passion and our cries of pleasure moments ago, now felt stifling, the air thick with unspoken words as awkwardness stretched between us.

I glanced at her, searching her expression for something—anything that could tell me what she was thinking. Her eyes were distant, and her lips were pressed into a thin line.

“Valeria, I mean to