“Sir, you have a meeting in five minutes,” the masculine voice from outside, along with the series of knocks that followed, broke whatever was fueling between us, leaving only an embarrassed tension.

He finally took his eyes away from me to stare at the door, his expression blazing with anger as if he was annoyed at the disturbance.

“Think about what I said—but remember I won’t wait forever.

And once you are mine, you are just mine, I don’t share,” he snarled the last statement, sending a chill of danger down me, but it was not like my body was ever going to obey me.

“Leave,” he said, finally dismissing...