Chapter 174: Addiction
Before Elias could react, the grip around his wrist tightened with a force he could not refuse.
He was dragged back in one clean motion and dropped into Yvonne's lap, caught against the softness of her body.
His mood changed as fast as it had when she rejected him.
The instant he was seated on her again, the anger vanished. Elias brightened at once, his smile dazzling.
"Yvonne," he said in a sweet, deliberately airy voice, "did you change your mind?"
Yvonne knew that tone was fake.
She knew he was performing. The sweetness was exaggerated, the softness too practiced, the whole act shamelessly artificial.
Even so, with Elias smiling at her like that, disgust was hard to reach.
He turned slightly and slipped his arms around her neck with practiced ease. Then he leaned forward and offered her his mouth.
"Don't worry," he said. "I'm clean. Serena Blackwood, Liora Voss, Giselle Frost. Which one of them looks like the kind of woman who'd be careless?"
