But he couldn’t bring himself to do it when there was a chance she might run. And after wanting her for the past four months, fighting the attraction every goddamn day, it’d fucking kill him if she ran. Those big light brown eyes swallowed her face, giving everything away — her shock, as well as her powerful arousal. “What?” she croaked in a throaty voice, looking past him as if seeking a route of escape within the cramped interior of the elevator. Or maybe she thought there was a secret cameraman getting ready to jump out of the wall, as if this were all some sort of set-up. It would have pissed him off, if he didn’t know how shy she was. Not to mention cautious around men. He just wished she had more faith in him than that. He took a deep breath, struggling to stay in control. They probably only had a handful of seconds before one of the guys on his security team used the intercom to make sure everything was okay, considering he’d had the elevator in lockdown for nearly a minute now.
