Chapter 23: The Bathroom

Nixon Walker kissed her as they moved, his hands busy as he slipped her out of her black skirt suit and tossed it aside. Once the suit was gone, it was as if something in her came unlocked; her voice stopped holding back and, by turns soft and urgent, drew him in. Beneath him, Briana Lyson looked like a fairy fallen to earth-sultry and enchanting, yet with a cool, distant beauty-so out of reach, yet once close, unexpectedly soft and endearing. Bruises from the night before still marked her skin....