Chapter 220

"What are you thinking about?"

Cassion set the bowl of soup down on the table and came toward me.

I stepped back without meaning to, and Cassion, with a lazy smile, swept a hand back through his hair.

Memories of past nights surfaced, and a thrill ran all the way to my fingertips, my toes. At this rate, we were headed straight for the bed, no question.

But I couldn't let the date he'd prepared end just like this.

I steeled myself to push him back. Just then, Cassion dropped to his knees in front of me.

"Cassion?"

What's he doing all of a sudden?

He took my hand. Something glinted through the slight gap of his parted lips. He pushed my finger into his mouth.

Something that hadn't been on my finger before, now was.

It was a ring!

He licked the saliva left clinging wetly on my finger…