Chapter Fifty Four: Embers of pleasure

*Vivienne*

Everything had happened at the speed of light that it almost gave me whiplash.

From trying to push Liam away, to bickering away like some lovers and then it somehow wants to end with me naked and writhing underneath him.

Everything had been going so well, Liam sure does know his way around a woman's body. He knows exactly what to do or touch to make you come undone.

At least that was until he brushed his fingers across my scar and I had tensed. It's actually kind of crazy how I had almost forgotten that it was there in the first place.

“Just pretend it's not there,” I blurted out, feeling desperate to take his attention away from there.

I knew that Liam had seen me undressed before and he had also seen the ugly looking scar but it still doesn't erase the fact that I was afraid that he might find it upsetting or off-putting.

The scar wasn't exactly what you would call a neat work. Back then, I was too busy trying to cut down on money that the hospital meant nothing to m