Chapter 23: You Don’t Smell Cheap
Chapter 23 – You Don’t Smell Cheap
He leaned back, watching her across the table.
So the dragon heiress wanted to play.
Fine.
Let the stocks tremble.
Mira Xianlong’s gaze was sharp. Unflinching. Most women — hell, most people — got a little hazy under his Incubus Pheromones. They’d blink too much. Stutter. Fumble their words. The air would grow thicker with suppressed tension, like someone had turned up the heat a notch too high.
But Mira?
She just stared at him like he was a late stock report. Intriguing. But not intimidating. Her pupils did dilate just a little — he noticed. Her breathing changed subtly. So the pheromones were working. She was affected.
Just... not weak.
And damn if that didn’t make her ten times hotter.
[Note: Subject affected by Pheromones.]