All Chapters of The Pursuit of Pleasure : Chapter 21 - Chapter 22

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.  

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