My body reacted before my brain could, my fingers gripping Levi's biceps. His suit jacket was soft to the touch, but his muscles were corded steel. In my mind's eye they rippled, Levi's naked body poised above mine, and a devilish grin on his face as he thrust into me.

Swallowing, I jerked sideways. Levi had made me believe in a foolish, wonderful future, and then taken it away, leaving this gaping emptiness. Priya was wrong about rage. It wasn't unhealthy. It was what kept me ...