Goose bumps prickle along my skin and the moment his gaze finds mine again, I’m all but panting. I don’t remember Eli ever being this… intense. The boy version of him tugged on every soft part of me, threatening to steal my heart with the wink of his eye. But this Eli—the man he’s become—is promising to own every part of me, and that is equally erotic and terrifying as hell.