Chapter 7: Tangled in Temptation.

Violet Virgilson.

“Then maybe I want to burn.”

The words were out before I could stop them, reckless and raw, like striking a match in a room full of gasoline.

Vincent’s eyes—stormy, dangerous, maddening—locked onto mine. For a heartbeat, neither of us moved. The air between us was no longer air; it was something thick, charged, molten. I could practically hear my own pulse pounding in my ears, and every nerve in my body screamed that one ...