Chapter 154

I’ll leave that to the staff. I’m going to come upstairs with you.’

And even though she knew he didn’t mean it in that way, she still felt a shivery thrill run through her.

To her surprise, Ariston didn’t leave her at her bedroom door as he usually did at night, but came into the room behind her. Lucette hadn’t expected that, and she’d already started to undo her hair—the pins had been sticking into her skull all evening.

Suddenly self-conscious, she lowered her arms—and then froze at the sound of Ariston ’s husky voice.

"Don’t stop."

In an aching rush she remembered how he’d told her he liked to watch her unpin her hair. It felt even more intimate, even more erotic, now that she knew he liked it. Slowly, her heart starting to thud, she reached up and took the pins out of her hair one by one.

Ariston didn’t say anything, but she could hear him breathing...feel the very air between them tauten. The pins now removed, she gave her head a little shake and her hair came tumbling down he