A Caged Songbird's Escape: Into the Arms of a Predator novel Chapter 284

Just before stepping out of the elevator, he glanced at Rowan with a trace of resignation. “I’ll have to trouble you with what we talked about earlier,” he said.

Rowan gave a slight nod, and he walked out.

As the elevator doors closed, Elissa frowned. “What’s he need you to do?”

She had a hunch this was about her.

“He said,”

Rowan’s gaze slid over her, his tone dry as kindling. “If he hadn’t realized he’d mistaken you for someone else, he’d have divorced you eight hundred times by now.”

“…”

Elissa didn’t believe a single word of it.

That line had Rowan written all over it.

Still, if Frank really felt that way, she’d be more than happy to oblige.

Seeing her go quiet, Rowan smirked. “Hurt your feelings?”

“What feelings?” Elissa shot back, rolling her eyes. “At least I’ve been married once. You? The closest you get is keeping a photo of your crush in your wallet.”

“Never realized you were the emotionally repressed type,” she went on, teasing, “so dignified and restrained—”

Before she could finish, he abruptly reached out and pinched her cheeks, squashing them until her words came out garbled.

She barely had time to protest before his hand covered the elevator camera and he bent down, capturing her mouth with his. Her protests dissolved in a rush of heat as he swallowed every word she tried to say.

In the elevator, with its mirrored walls and the ever-present threat of interruption, Elissa nearly jumped out of her skin. She squirmed, muffling a startled “mmph!”

Luckily, the elevator reached their floor in seconds.

Rowan’s hand slid down to the back of her thigh, lifting her effortlessly as he strode out. The moment they were in the hallway, he pressed her against the wall.

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