Chapter FIFTEEN

DESTINY

Marat’s room was in one of the ritziest hotels on the Strip. I’d been in the lobby before, but never in a room, and sure as fuck, I’d never been in the penthouse.

But I couldn’t divert any attention to my surroundings. He claimed all of it. The elevator ride was a blur. And as for the décor of the penthouse suite? I had no fucking idea.

I was a fan of beautiful things. I liked art and nature. Even the neon signs and the riotous, sometimes gaudy, interior design of hotels, bars, clubs, and restaurants in Vegas were pretty.

But if someone asked me right then what color the walls were or what flooring was beneath my feet, I would have had no fucking clue.

I could have been anywhere standing on anything and it wouldn’t have made a dent through the fog of passion shrouding my brain.

All I saw, heard, and felt was him. Marat Volkov was everywhere. He was everything. For someone who’d been alone most of her adult life, I hadn’t even put up a fight.