She peeked at him under her arm as he pushed her loose hair up out of her field of vision. “What if someone sees those?”
He let her hair fall. “No one steals from me, Shy. What’s mine is mine. You trust that I wouldn’t share you.”
After what he’d said to Gavin in the lobby, yeah, she could trust that he wasn’t the type to flash her around. Sliding her knees out from under her, she sank down on her stomach, her arms still stretched over her head.
Shyla couldn’t even see through her hair, but she smiled anyway. “If you seal your promise with a kiss, I will,” she said, hoping he understood her request was more about her need for his mouth than any lack of faith.
With a heavy hand, he pushed her hair away, once and twice until he could find her mouth to give her what she’d asked for. “I have to go to work.”
“Fish has got it,” she said, trying to lift her shoulder to his. She couldn’t rise that far and ended up rolling onto her side instead, which took some of the pressure off her shoulders. “This has got to be more fun than work.” She let her eyes bob down. “Look, naked woman.”
“I noticed,” he said and pressured her shoulder to put her on her back again. But as he admired her, the heat of his regard grew. Having that effect on him made her squirm. As she moved, he sighed, peaking her nipples under the cascade of his breath. “I have to go.”
“I’ll let you do anything to me, Phoenix… Anything.”
“That’s why I have to leave.”
All this time, she’d been completely naked while he was fully clothed. It was only as he slipped off the bed again that she regretted not having a chance to see him as he’d seen her. He went over to her closet to explore inside.
“What if I said you have to have sex with me,” she said, recognizing her urgency.
But he didn’t sound worried. “And if I don’t, you’ll what? Murder my entire family? Good luck. You’d be doing me a favor. Take Razer out first or he’ll take you down.”
“I meant, I won’t let you do anything to me except have sex with me.”
“You’re in such a hurry, Little Lamb,” he said, pulling clothes and underwear from her closet to dump them on top of the dresser. “This is what you wear tomorrow.”
“Tomorrow?” she asked. “What about tonight?”
“Tonight you won’t need clothes. I’ll lock down the elevator before I leave so you’ll only be able to get out, in case there’s a fire. I’ll be the only one allowed in.” Getting back on the bed, he drew a line from her throat to her cleavage, down the middle of her body until he sank his finger between her folds to begin massaging her clit. “Or I could just leave you right here.”
Her hips moved in time with the bliss of his stimulating finger. “Tied to the bed?” she asked. “What if I have to pee?”
“Then you’ll make a mess,” he said, pressing her harder.
A whine of desire warmed her lips. “Make love to me, Phoenix.”
But he shook his head and kissed her again. “No time.”
“If we only had time for one thing, why did you choose… what you did instead of going all the way with me?”
“Do you like this?” he asked, his mouth resting on hers. In reply, she opened her legs further until she slid a foot over his leg to nestle it between his. Just for good measure, she nodded. “It feel good when I ate your pussy?” She nodded again. “That felt good. What you’re asking for won’t feel good.”
When he eased back, stealing his mouth from hers, she clamped her legs tight together, twisting them around his hand to trap it in place. She didn’t want him to stop, she just wanted to pause for a second, and didn’t want him to escape.
“I dream about having you inside me, Phoenix. I want to—”
“I’m a big guy, baby, and you’re virgin territory,” he said. “It will hurt and I’m not ready to do that to you yet.”
She’d heard that the first time could be uncomfortable. He was over a foot taller than her, so it wasn’t a leap that his body would be in proportion. Hearing him say he wasn’t ready altered her perception. It wasn’t only about her, he had to be ready too.
“Okay,” she said. “We’ll wait until you’re mad at me or something.”
“I was mad tonight,” he said. “Did I hurt you?”
The last thing she’d meant to imply was that he’d take his anger out on her. “No, but you’ll have to one day if the first time is going to hurt…” He’d been generous with her and once again, he got nothing from the deal. “Is there something I can do?”
His hand came out from between her thighs, shattering her illusion. She’d thought her hold on him was secure, turned out he was just being polite.
“Another guy is never the answer,” he said, grabbing her chin to snatch her attention up. “I don’t give a damn what we’re fighting about. That thought ever comes in your head again, you scrub it out of there, or I’ll do it for you… Never underestimate what I’ll do to any man who thinks about coming anywhere near you.”
After their phone encounter, Gavin would never even look her way again.
She shivered. “I thought I was doing a good thing,” she said. “Solving a problem. Until you found out I hadn’t had sex, we were great. I wanted us to be great again. I thought having sex would be the way to do that. I wasn’t attracted to Gavin.”
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