CH.43

Knox allowed the faintest smirk to ghost across his lips at the thought and a sense of masculine pride swelled in his chest at her fearless defiance in the face of such unrelenting scrutiny.

Just as swiftly as the vision of her had captured his roving attention, he forced his gaze away with an almost physical wrench of will.

“Drive!” Knox spoke through the car com.

“Roger that boss!” Came the driver’s response.

Knox stared unseeingly through the tinted partition as the roar of the rabid crowd faded into the distance.

A muscle ticked in his clenched jaw while he ruthlessly tamped down the warring impulses raging within like a tempest begging for release.

The primal urge to shield her from their withering judgment and scathing condemnation battled with the bone-deep longing to gather her into his arms, to possess her fully as he'd dreamed of for so long.

To claim her as his own in every sense of the word, damn the consequences. And simmering beneath it all like the molten co