Lexus’s arms were still wrapped loosely around my waist, and he was looking down at my face with so much raw emotion, so much hunger, that the breath caught tight in my throat.
The playfulness vanished, replaced by heat.
I slowly dropped the remaining stones from my fingers, letting them fall and placed my hands against his chest, feeling the pounding of his heart under his jacket.
"Lexus," I said my voice trembling a little bit with vulnerability. "I brought you out here because I need to tell you something. Something that has been bothering me for days."
"What is it, beautiful? You can tell me anything."
I took a deep breath, forcing myself to be brave. "Over the past few days, since everything happened with the war and the kidnapping... my feelings for you have changed. I don't ju
