"Come," he orders from his spot across the room, sitting with his arms resting on his thighs as he watches me with a dark gleam in his eyes.

Shifting, I push myself forward from my sitting position as I begin to crawl across the floor. The roughness of the carpet bites into the skin of my knees and palms. He watches me as I make the distance between us, peeking up at him through my lashes as I do.