CHAPTER 69

DARLENE

He stood at the other side of the door and his lips stretched into that contagious smile of his when his eyes fell on me.

I wasn't sharing any of his excitement, not when his mere presence was already wreaking havoc on my body and his smile was already sending a wave of desire to the wrong parts of my body.

Not when my heart was already beating faster.

His eyes moved away from my face and it dipped lower to the excuse of a nightgown that I had on. I watched as his eyes became hooded at the sight of my exposed cleavage, how his eyes lingered on them with clear lust in them.

"What are you doing here?" I snapped at him, angry at him, angry at the fact that he was looking at me that way, and angry at myself for feeling a low fire getting rekindled in my lower abdomen because he was looking at me that way.

He looked up at my angry tone, the smile disappearing from his face as he looked at me carefully as if he was trying to figure out something about me or my mood.

"I was retiring