Chapter 21

The Pursuit of Pleasure    Chapter 21

Nikolai parked his car outside of Victoria's building, switched off the engine and turned to look at her. They had driven with the windows down and the wind had tousled her hair and had brought a colour of excitement to her cheeks. She was wearing a T-shirt of his along with her pair of jeans that she had worn the previous day but she had rolled the cuffs to mid-calf. She was, in other words, a beautiful rumpled mess and made made him ache just to see her. He still couldn't get over how excited she had gotten over the simplest thing. Like trying out candy floss, or them going swimming in the lake after the small picnic that he had arranged for them on lake Travis. It was all the things that she wasn't supposed to do, she had told him. Not allowed to do. And with her finest imitation of Mrs. Fred's voice, she would reenact just how she would say, "Ms. Sinn, it is not proper for a lady to sit with her leg stretched out before her. A prop

The Pursuit of Pleasure    Chapter 20

His voice was low, soft as silk. Victoria felt a tightening in her breasts,and in the pit of her belly. And when one of his hand dropped lower, to spread across her bottom and the other slid slowly up her spine; her breath caught her throat.

The Pursuit of Pleasure    Chapter 19

She was halfway down the road to the lake, walking with her arms wrapped around herself, when Nikolai found her.

The Pursuit of Pleasure    Chapter 18

Victoria insisted on driving her Sedan. Although to Nikolai's liking, he had preferred that she had rode in with them.

The Pursuit of Pleasure    Chapter 17

Victoria had known that people still whispered about her. Whether ot was her personal or her position at her father’s company. She also knew that they wouldn’t dare say anything to her face. So she decided that what was said behind her back didn’t matter, not even when they were beginning to hint that she was the shameful lady behind the mask who over bid at the auction.

The Pursuit of Pleasure    Chapter 16

Almost two weeks later, Nikolai slipped off his headset and fastened his seatbelt as the captain announce their decent. It had been months since he had last seen his father and once news struck that he had taken a sudden ill spell, Nikolai jumped on the first flight to Nappa valley.

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