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Chapter 27: He Devoured Her Core

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Olivia’s POV

I yanked the closet door open, pretending like I wasn’t flushed, like my lips weren’t still tingling from Leonard’s kiss. I needed to get dressed. To get away. Away from him… from whatever this was turning into.

But the moment I reached for my robe, I felt him.

That familiar heat. That shift in the air.

“Don’t,” I warned without turning around.

He yanked me back like he was done pretending, slamming the closet door shut behind me and caging me against it.

His body pressed into mine, hard and hot, and I felt it, every inch of him, ready, throbbing.

“You really think you can walk away after that little stunt?” he growled, his voice like gravel and sex.

I smirked, even as my pulse pounded between my legs. “Watch me.”

His hand slid up the back of my thigh, under the shirt I was barely wearing. His touch was fire, hot, possessive, brutal in how much I needed it.

“No panties?” he whispered, dragging his fingers between my legs. “Fuck, Olivia…”

I gasped, m
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