Chapter 352

Two spots of color burned in her cheeks, and her eyes flashed. Calix had to suck in a breath against his will.

She was magnificent…and how had she transported him back to a time he had believed he’d forgotten for good, so easily and so quickly?

He reeled. Reeled with the shock of coming face to face with the very woman who’d captivated him across the room. Reeled with the force of her beauty up close. And now reeled with the knowledge that it was Cassia Baros. The girl who had taken petty spite and used it to almost ruin him. He looked down at her. Except now she wasn’t a girl. She was a woman. A very sexy woman. A woman who was making the blood hum in his veins and an arrow of desire shoot straight to his groin. An instant chemical reaction.

Cassia had opened her mouth again to speak, but before she could, a blonde vision appeared beside Calix, a scarlet-tipped hand on his arm. a blatant indication of ownership. And who could blame her? Cassia thought fuzzily, closing her mouth, her