CHAPTER 9

Aleen POV::

"I am sorry. I wanted to change my mind." I tell him. He is still sitting, legs wide open, head laid back and relaxed, though I feel his dark eyes rove over my body, so intensely that my nipples go hard at the intensity behind that stare.

"But you didn't. That is why you are here." Stephane says. His leisurely tone doesn't set me at ease. I look around the apartment, at least what I can make out in the dull red lights, the living area we are in is decorated luxuriously with expensive furnishings. There is a huge refrigerator in the corner with an island kitchen top that passes for the kitchen space. And that is it for the living room. I get the sense that the other room, out of my direct eye line is what I should be interested in. Whether it is a bedroom or not, I can't tell.

"Yes." I whisper. I am standing about ten feet away from him. I want to get closer but I also just want to keep standing here. Away from him, but not really. We both know it. I am all his. There is n