My nerves threatened to swallow me whole when he placed his hand on my lower back and led me to the elevator on his floor. And they didn't relax even as we rode the elevator in silence.

I didn't dare speak in the elevator, knowing that if I opened my mouth I was going to ask him to take me right there in the damn elevator.

He steered me to the lobby– yes, his mansion had a freaking lobby– and then to the front of the mansion.

I bit hard into my bottom lip when we walked past a group of maids and they stared at me with shock plastered...