"Honey... how about we stay on this island for a few more days?" Huo Ting Cheng's voice was soft against her ear, his arms wrapped around her in an intimate embrace that felt both protective and possessive.
"Nope! That can't work." Tang Fei's response was immediate, practical. "We can't stay here forever. We still have to go back to where we left things. Life has to move forward." She shifted slightly in his arms, her tone taking on a teasing edge. "Even if you had plans to lock me away here, it's not possible. The human brain gets bored eventually. Even yours would."
She had studied him carefully, pieced together his patterns from fragmented memories, from the way he moved through the world. He was possessive, obsessed even, but not in a way that felt dangerous. He controlled himself, maintained boundaries even when his instincts probably screamed otherwise.
