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Fear floods my chest like cold water.
His face is lethally calm, his mouth pressed into a thin line and his eyes sharp. And there is a terrible sense of danger radiating off him.
I try to suck in another breath underneath his powerful body.
Fuck.
Maybe surprising an assassin with an air horn in the middle of the night wasn’t such a good idea after all.
Then Jace’s eyes focus on my face, and recognition blows across his features. He blinks. And then frowns.
In a matter of seconds, that terrifying danger evaporates from his features and is instead replaced by something like exasperation. Or maybe annoyance. Or both.
At last, he pulls back enough for his chest to stop crushing mine. I suck in a desperate breath, finally refilling my lungs.
But he doesn’t climb off me.
His hands remain around my wrists, pinning them to the floor, and his hips are flush against mine. With his body between my legs like that, I can feel the massive bulge of his cock through the thin fabric of our clothes.
Heat sears my skin, and I suddenly become acutely aware that Jace is naked except for his underwear.
I try to yank my hands out of his grip and wiggle out from underneath him, but it only makes me grind my hips against his.
Another wave of heat pulses through me.
“What the hell are you doing?” Jace demands above me.
I scowl up at him, desperately praying that the heat I can feel radiating from my cheeks isn’t visible in the gloomy light. “What does it look like? I’m trying to get you off me.”
“Yeah, I can see that.” He gives me a flat look. “I meant with the air horn.”
My gaze drifts towards the canister now resting against the leg of the bed a short distance from us. Oh. Right. That. Well, uhm…
While taking an extra second to look at the air horn, I scramble to come up with a scathing remark. But it’s annoyingly difficult when I’m hyperaware of how his cock is pressed between my legs.
At last settling on something, I turn my gaze back to him and arch a haughty eyebrow. “You were late. My usual bodyguard would be up by now.”
He scoffs and flashes me a smile full of challenge. “No, he wouldn’t. Because you get up at six, and your bodyguards always get up at a quarter to six.”
Surprise flits through me.
His smile turns into a smirk as he raises an eyebrow. “I’ve memorized your schedule, remember?”
Yanking against his hands, I squirm underneath him again while shooting him a vicious glare. “Just get off me.”
“No.”
I stare up at him incredulously. “What?”
“First, you’re going to apologize.”
“For what?”
“For sneaking into my bedroom uninvited and blaring an air horn in my face.” He tuts and shakes his head. “That’s a very rude thing to do, little demon.”
Anger flickers through me, and I struggle against his hold yet again. “First of all, this is my apartment. I don’t need permission to enter any of the rooms in it. So if I want to be in your bed?—”
“You want to be in my bed?” he interrupts, and gives me one of those damn smirks that makes my heart flip.
