Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 1816

She frowned, reaching up to pinch the hard ridges of his abdomen. "Nicholas, do you have a biting problem?"

His searing lips shifted slightly from her ear, brushing against the sensitive skin of her jaw. "Serena, when you used Specimen Fourteen as bait, you put yourself right in the crosshairs."

"You know better than anyone how dangerous this is."

His voice was a low, gravelly rasp, and the arm banded around her waist tightened protectively.

Serena knew this man was worried about her.

But... she had to face Obsidian Sun head-on.

It was her only real chance to penetrate their core and reclaim her grandmother's life's work.

Her fingertips lingered on his taut stomach, giving another deliberate pinch as she blinked up at him with a radiant smile. "Isn't that why I have my darling patron here?"

Nicholas's gaze turned somber, his body going rigid and hot beneath her teasing touch.

He brought his hand up, threading his long fingers through hers and pressing her palm firmly flat against his torso.

The skin beneath her knuckles felt like a furnace.

She could clearly feel every hard ridge of muscle beneath her palm growing hotter, tighter.

She could also feel his ragged breaths fanning across her ear, trailing fire along her skin.

It was as if he was restraining a dangerous, scorching wave of desire.

"Now you remember I'm here?" he asked, his voice rough and seductive.

Serena didn't shy away. She let him hold her hand there, tilting her stunning eyes up at him with a dazzling smile. "Of course. I can afford to be so reckless precisely because I know you'll always have my back."

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