Temptation (The Hunted, #1)

by Ivy Smoak

"I knew I wanted you since I first ran into you in that coffee shop. But I wasn't going to pursue you because you're a student. When you showed up in my class it complicated things, though. Every time I saw you, every answer you gave for the daily assignments, and every time we spoke made it impossible for me to get you out of my head. I knew I wanted you. I thought if I let myself give in to the temptation I could move on." I felt so cheap. He just wanted me for my body. He was just like Austin. No, he was worse. I stood up. I had to get away from him. I didn't want him to see me cry. "Penny, sit down." I didn't move. "Sit down, or I'll make you sit down." I gulped. His words had such a power over me. What the hell was happening to me? I sat back down in my chair and looked at him. "I don't understand why you're upset. We've already talked about all of this. Everything is different now. I couldn't move on. I don't want to move on. You’re all that I think about." He rubbed his face in his hands. "Geez, you have this way of crawling under my skin." "Why, because I want to know more about you? That's what people that are dating do! I don't know why you always get upset when we try to talk." "Because I don't want you to know what kind of man I am." "I think that you're exactly the kind of man that I want."