Chapter 0024

ADONIS

I could measure a person’s desire and fear with just one look at their faces and sometimes from their voices or the way their pupils dilated. It was a talent I had nurtured with time.

And Abigail? She wanted me, just as much as I wanted her. It was good knowing I wasn’t the only one trapped in the reverie, the desperation. There was denial in her, which was perhaps because of who I was, but that resolve wouldn’t last long.

It took all my will to behave, to not whirl her around, push her against the wall and kiss every delicious inch of her body. It took all my will to give up the urge to hear her moan my name.

Ros’s presence had to be the reason for my restraints.

And I could very well say it was Dom’s doing. That asshole! I wasn’t the only one my men were loyal to. Dom, being the consigliere, was him having the second command in my empire. The news about Abigail coming to the gym had travelled back to that dick faster than I had imagined.

But it was still a surprise that