I couldn’t just stand there; I knew the next words out of his mouth would have been an apology. I didn’t need to hear him tell me he was sorry for kissing me. Not when for the first time in years, I felt alive. No one has ever kissed me like Nicholas just did. No one has ever made me lose myself in a kiss; I’ve never felt like I did a few minutes ago and I couldn’t stand there and let him apologize for that. I didn’t want to hear that he regretted what just happened because of the stupid rules of the contract. I reread the contract the...