Spread your legs, princess.
Yes, I remember now.This place.
I close my eyes in an attempt to breathe through the lust that tries to consume me.Rogan’s not here.This is just a place.Just a bed.Just his scent.
It’s nothim.
I open my eyes and scan the room, deliberately looking away from the bed.The rest of the room is magnificent.The floor is dark wood, no carpeting like in the main part of the penthouse.The furniture—a dresser, chest of drawers, night tables, and a small table by the window—are black lacquer like the desk in his office.A loveseat—black leather with red satin pillows—sits near the window next to the small table.
The room is so…
So…
So…me.
If I designed my own perfect bedroom, it would look exactly like this.
I close my eyes once more, again easing the lust.When I open them, I zero in on one of two doors.I walk toward it slowly and open it.
It’s a huge walk-in closet, and boy, does Rogan like clothes.Designer suits galore in myriad colors and fabrics, and my God… He has a whole wall of shoes.
So odd, when he looks his best in jeans and nothing else.
Or in nothing, period.
I’m not a fashionista myself.Give me a tank top, skinny jeans, and thigh-high black boots and I’m ready for any occasion.
Still, the wall of shoes draws me forward.I trail my fingers over the rich Italian leather of a cordovan Oxford.The robust scent of the leather mixes with Rogan’s wolf fragrance.I close my eyes and inhale the intoxicating aroma.Then I pull the shoe off of its shelf—
And I gasp.
A compartment opens behind the shoe wall.
A secret compartment.
Still holding the cordovan shoe, I squeeze through the small opening.
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Rogan’s scent isn’t nearly as acute in this secret passageway.The fragrance still lingers, but…
I inhale, exhale, inhale again.
My eyelids flutter.
What is happening to me?
Hold your breath.
My instinct again.I trust it, but I can only go so long without air.The passageway is dark and narrow, and—
I can’t help it.I breathe in.A gasp of air.Then another.
Darkness clouds my mind.
Until I know nothing else.
WAKE UP,bitch.