Vengeance Aside (Wanted Men 0.5)(35)

She heard him shift, and then he was cupping her face and bumping her hand out of the way with his nose. She wasn’t really in the mood to kiss until she felt his mouth on hers and flames began licking at her wherever their bodies came into contact. When he parted her lips with his tongue, she participated because she couldn’t help herself. Until she remembered the men a few feet away outside the doors.

She tried to pull away. “Your goons—”

“Will not interrupt.” Back he pulled her.

“Because you do this a lot?” she asked, holding him off with inches between them. The sickest feeling took up residence in her stomach. Jealousy. Its sharp edges were jagged and dangerous, and so unfamiliar they frightened her.

“Because I will let them know when I need them.”

She laid a hand on his hard thigh. “Oh.”

“But I have had other women. I won’t deny that.”

She wouldn’t have expected him to. “How old are you?”

“Thirty-four.”

“I’m twenty-two. That’s quite the leap in years, huh?”

He leaned back and looked down at her body. Had he felt her shiver? She gasped loudly when he brushed a knuckle over the visible bead that was her nipple.

“That seems to interest you,” he drawled.

She didn’t comment. No sense in letting him know she’d always found older men attractive because they seemed more capable of taking care of their women than the young, cocky ones concerned about nothing more than how their pecs looked in a shirt.

She wasn’t sure if she couldn’t protest or just didn’t want to when Lukas dragged her over until she was straddling his lap. He placed his hands on her ribs and spread his fingers before caressing her. Up and down he moved. Slowly, deliberately. On his third pass, he didn’t stop below her breasts but listened to her silent plea and came up to cup them. He measured their weight, kneading them, heating them through the thin material of her dress with the fire coming from his palms. He held her eyes as he stroked his thumbs across her nipples, causing shards of pleasure to lance through her. She had to open her mouth to get some air into her lungs.

“Now you get handsy?” There was a tremor in her voice that mortified her.

He didn’t respond but to get her nipples between his thumbs and fingers. He pinched. She felt the beauty of it right down to her soul.

“I’ll do this to you when we get home. Only, you’ll be naked.”

Her head bobbed in a nod. She couldn’t resist him physically. Couldn’t deny that. And she didn’t want to resist him, she remembered. Have some sex and leave; get on with her life. Where had that plan gone?

He rolled her nipples and licked his lips as her back arched all on its own, offering him everything.

Everything?

“This boy you lived with,” he said as he watched his hands work on her. “The one who cheated on you.”

“He only kind of cheated. We were more friends-with-bennies than anything else,” she said distractedly.

“He never made you feel the way I do.”

She didn’t answer that but to make a quiet sound that could have meant anything.

He pinched her harder and lifted his knees to make her slide down so that his thick erection met her needy pussy. “Did he, Magdalena.”

She moaned when an arrow of desire ripped through her, connecting her nipples to her pulsing core. “Never,” she gasped, feeding his already overblown ego.

“I didn’t think so. But the little prick hurt you.”

“Not really. He just proved again that people are shitty.” She covered his fingers and squeezed them so he’d squeeze her again. “Feels so good when you do that.”

“I want to strip you and fuck you right here. I’d like the boys and anyone walking by to hear you pound on the windows and scream when you come on my cock. Are you a noisy lover?”

Her ability to speak deserted her.

“I think you’re a noisy lover. Tell me what gets you to the point where you lose your mind? What don’t you like, yagodka? Do you have any hard limits?”

Did she have what? God, she could barely think. This man was taking her over. He wasn’t only tearing her walls down faster than she could throw them up, he was making her forget the damn things were there for her to use.

She placed her hands flat on his chest. His heart was beating steady and strong. “I…don’t know. You can do anything you want to me. With me. On me.” She shrugged. “Whatever.”

His mouth firmed into a hard slash “Is that so? Then I guess we’ll head to a club downtown that allows select patrons to perform for the elite crowd. I’ll tie you to a platform that has perfectly placed cut-outs, and I’ll fuck you while more than a hundred masked onlookers masturbate into troughs some of the more adventurous visitors have been known to bathe in at the end of the night.”

Dale shoved his hands off her and hammered down a Keep Out sign as she slid off him and moved to the side. Her lips were curled, and goosebumps rose so fast on her body they actually caused her pain. “No. No, no, no. Not that kind of anything. Fuck, Lukas.” She shuddered. “I’ve obviously given you the wrong impression.” Goddamn him. Was he one of those? “Seriously. I’m not a whore to be used in front of others. I know that sort of shit goes on, and I’m not one to judge, but I’ve never had any interest in being a part of it.”