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Please. Did she beg so sweetly for assholes like Grant, or did she save it for me?
As I leaned down, I decided I didn’t care. For the first time in ages, Mari’s lips pressed to mine, and it felt like coming home. Like I finally had that piece of me back I hadn’t realized she’d held. She gripped my hair, keeping me close, and I stroked my tongue across the seam of her lips. When they parted? When she opened herself to me finally?
Heaven. Pure heaven.
I drank from her mouth, sipped and licked and soaked her in like I’d never get another chance. When we both needed a breath, I went back to her neck, her shoulders, her chest. Anything I could reach, I kissed.
“Precious little butterfly. How I’ve missed you,” I murmured against sweat-slick skin.
Mari pulled me up and nipped my bottom lip sharply, soothing the sting with the swipe of her tongue. “I’m not precious.”
“You are to me.”
She pulled away, the haze of lust disappearing under the weight of her uncertainty. Her mistrust. It killed me. “Dominic?—”
I shushed her, reeling her back into my body until we were dancing again. “What do you want, mariposa?”
“I want to feel. Just for tonight. No drama, no history, no fucking Cash. I just want to get lost in the music and the feel of someone’s hands.”
“My hands.”
Her eyes glimmered with humor as she taunted me. “Are you sure? I’m sure Grant’s free?—”
She gasped as I twisted her, yanking her back to my front. There was no room between us as I slid my fingers through that silky hair and tightened, baring her neck for my teeth. “Only me. Or Greyson.”
I wasn’t sure why I added him, but as soon as I did, it felt right.
“Greyson isn’t interested.”
I laughed, pressing a hot kiss against the junction of her neck and shoulder. “If you think that, you aren’t paying attention. That man would bleed if you asked him to.”
“That’s loyalty.”
Did she really think that, or was she too scared to see what was in front of her? I didn’t know, but some part of me wanted to show her. To remind her that he’d always been there when I hadn’t. To reward that for both of them. “That’s love, mariposa.”
She froze, and I pressed against her, leading as we wound our bodies to the music. It was simulated sex with clothes on, hot and sticky and so fucking sexy. I wanted more.
Mari melted into me. “Touch me. Just for tonight. Make me yours.”
I wanted to. I wanted to more than I’d wanted to do anything else in my life. But it didn’t feel right. Because she wanted a night, and I wanted forever.
“No.”
She stilled in my arms. “What?”
How could I explain it to her? I didn’t want a quick fuck. I wanted this, us, to last. I twisted her around so she could see me. See the truth. “I haven’t earned you yet.”
And I want more.
She scoffed, trying to pull away, and I tightened my grip. “If this is some edging thing, I’m not interested.”
“Good to know.”
She pulled again, and this time, I could feel her slipping away. “This doesn’t have to mean anything.”
But I wanted it to.
“I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life, Mari. I’ve been careless with you, and it’s one of my biggest regrets. I want to make it right. I need to make it right. So, I’m going to earn my way back into your heart. Because this?” I tightened my hand, pulling her head back so I could lay a soft kiss against her cheek. Mari shuddered against me, fingers clawing into my wrist as she felt that connection between us too. “This is next-level shit.”
