Chapter Fourteen
The thick, heavy tension hanging inside the concrete walls of the compound did not ease up or go away after the big Church business meeting ended. It did not fade into the background. Instead, it stayed right there beneath the surface, growing worse and nastier every single hour, like an open wound that was starting to fester and go bad in the heat.
Two full days passed by in a slow, agonizing blur, and during every single second of those days, Stone kept my small body even closer to his side than he had before. He still had not pushed me for anything more in a physical way since the night I told him my secret, honorably keeping his promise to wait until I was truly ready. But even though he was keeping his desire under strict control, his possessive touches grew much mo
