Chapter 112: Complete submission
In a way, the look in his eyes was not so foreign after all... It echoed the remanence of that same glare he’d had on within her most recent dream or... Nightmare.
Silas held her figure so close his warm breath ricocheted against her earlobe then back to him.
In the face of all the efforts Arabella put in, her gemstones refused to meet his diamonds as the grin adorning his lips discouraged them from doing so.
The young woman’s heart pumped blood twice if not thrice as fast through her streams, shortening her breath as a result.
Silas watched amused as the pale ivory around her face gradually switched to a scarlet one, deepening by the second, all the while tightening his hold around her waist, drawing her closer to himself ever so slowly.
"Where did all of that confidence go?"
He’d whispered right in her ear, wrenching a shiver that traveled from the lowest point of her feet up the highest hair on her head. The vibration it’d induced rippled through his arm before reaching his chest which did not help quell his ardor one bit. On the contrary, his muscles tensed further, locking her in place.
Her voice had long since fallen asleep or simply abandoned her and aside from the loud, shallow breaths that escaped her control, not a single peep came from her.
Arabella had laid both hands flat on him, but no matter the amount of pushing she did, it changed absolutely nothing to her situation.