Surrender to Temptation Part IV: Tempted to Entice Read Online Free PDF

know why.” I held my breath, nerves slicing through me with jagged edges. I might have just pushed him too far, and I knew it.
    He had said that he wasn’t ready to share. From what I had seen, he might not ever be ready. But I couldn’t just obey him blindly. There were things I needed to know.
    Things like, what did he have planned that would be so strenuous that I needed food in my belly?
    Nerves danced over my skin with even greater force than before, and I eyed him with uncertainty.
    He scowled. I refused to break eye contact.
    Finally, begrudgingly, he spoke. “A few years ago there was a woman I was involved with. I had always been careful before her, and nothing bad had ever happened. I relaxed some of my rules with her. She wound up in the hospital, and never forgave me.”
    A small sound snuck past my lips. What had he and this woman from the past been doing that she ended up in the hospital, no matter what his rules were? I opened my mouth to ask the question, and to demand to know if he had something similar planned for me, but he shook his head before the words could leave my lips.
    “I’m not telling you what I have planned for you. And I’m not talking about anything else from my past.” A quick glance at him told me that he was entirely serious. Just those few simple sentences seemed to have drawn great amounts of energy from him, and I started to understand then what it cost him to visit those demons from his past.
    With that in mind, I pulled a plump, juicy red berry to my lips and took a bite, holding his gaze the entire time.
    “You’re learning.” A relieved and self-satisfied smile curled Zach’s lips, and in response I threw a raspberry at him, deliberately trying to lighten the mood. He was only too willing to move on, and he caught it in his mouth, drawing a giggle out of me.
    Things between us felt so light, so blessedly normal, that I couldn’t believe it had only been hours earlier that I had been convinced we were done.
    I bit into another berry. Zach’s stare followed the movements of my lips, my tongue, as I chewed and swallowed.
    “Did you enjoy what we saw tonight?” Walking—no, he stalked—across the kitchen toward me, he pulled my fingers from the bowl of berries and fed the next one to me himself. I made sure that my tongue swept across the pads of his fingers as I accepted the fruit, nodding as I chewed and swallowed.
    “You are amazing, Devon.” I shook my head when he lifted another piece of red fruit. With him standing so close, I could smell that essence that was so uniquely him, and I had tightened all over with need.
    I didn’t want any more food. Not one more bite. I wanted him.
    Shoving the bowl to the side with barely restrained excitement, Zach bent at the knees and swept me off of my feet, quite literally. My arms curled around his neck with barely restrained glee as his arms tucked beneath my knees and my butt.
    He may have meant it as a display of power, but it made my heart stumble in my chest. I tried to swallow down the feelings that blossomed under his tender touch, knowing that he wasn’t in any place to reciprocate them, and only just succeeded in hiding them.
    At the moment, I would take any part of this man that I could get. And if it meant hiding away the fact that I was starting to care for him, really, truly care for him, then that was what I would do.
    Kicking open the door to his bedroom, he strode across the carpet before depositing me gently on his meticulously made bed. I thought of how he had awakened, tangled in nightmares, in that same bed, and felt a frisson of uncertainty.
    No matter how I felt about him, at the core I knew next to nothing about him. Whatever was about to happen, I was placing a large amount of trust in him.
    I looked up to find him watching me with a shuttered expression.
    “You can still decide, Devon. Yes or no.” His face revealed nothing. “But once we begin, you need to trust me. That trust is the basis of