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MELISSA
Iam breathless. I can’t believe what just happened. I have never been kissed like that before.
I touch my bruised lips and swear I can still feel his touch. I am burning all over for him and I never saw it coming.
I don’t leave the pool, instead I lie on my back and unpack what just happened. It was the single best moment of my life and yet I’m struggling with it. Does Adonis see me as another willing hole to fill? Another Chloe, perhaps. Somebody who was up for anything with his brother, who would happily transfer her attention elsewhere when the first option failed.
What must Apollo think of me? Kissing his brother not long after doing the same with him.
But what a kiss.
What a panty melting, soul destroying, life changing, kiss. Adonis is not Apollo; he is way more than that. He is the dark edge to Apollo’s shadow. There are no light patches where it concerns them. They both kill for a living. I’m still working out what I think about that.
I kissed a killer. A gorgeous, ruthless predator who looks and feels like a god.
Despite all my doubts and reservations, I would do it all again exactly as it happened. I want him; I lust after him and I wonder what he will do about that.
I enjoy the sunshine for the next hour, returning to my sun bed and finishing off the fruit platter and draining the pitcher of water. Adonis doesn’t come back, but his sun bed is taken by someone I definitely wasn’t expecting.
Once again, a shadow blocks out my sun and I nearly jump out of my skin when Dimitri Constantine sits on Adonis’s sun bed and smiles.
I’m conscious I’m near naked and reach for my sarong and say quickly, “I’m sorry. I didn’t know you were there.”
He shrugs. “I didn’t announce it.”
Thankfully, he doesn’t drag his astonishing blue eyes across my body and appears almost respectful as he clicks his fingers, and the housekeeper appears. “More water please, Maria.”
He smiles, and she nods, the ever-present twinkle in her eyes.
“I came to check that you were okay.” He says sweetly.
“That’s so kind of you.” I’m surprised because this man is much like his sons. Tall, built like a barn and covered in ink. His body is toned and muscled with not a wrinkle in sight and if I were into older men, a sugar daddy, if you like, he would be at the top of my list.
“If Adonis has overstepped the mark, I will deal with it.”
He says simply and I shake my head as I blush because he must have seen what happened.
“It’s, um, fine. I’m sorry if we were disrespectful.”
He throws his head back and laughs.
“Disrespectful.” He shakes his head and his eyes flash with humor. “Kissing is not disrespectful. Not here. Disrespect in our business is dealt with in a far more chilling way.”
His smile fades. “Adonis is a man who lost his mother when it counted. He has been brought up to respect women, which he does to a degree, but he is also a man who always gets what he wants.”
“It’s fine um...”
I really don’t know what to say because all I can picture is the one Chloe painted in my head of the three men at once and Dimitri says kindly, “It is okay to say no to him. In fact, it may do him good.”
“Why are you telling me this?”
I’m curious and Dimitri smiles sadly. “Because I’m hopeful that one day, Adonis will discover what it’s like to truly love a woman. Not just to take what he wants and move onto the next one. To understand the complexities that make up a relationship. To consider her his world and do the best he can for her.”
He stares at me with an expression of hope and says gruffly, “I want her to feel the same. You see, Melissa, Adonis doesn’t know how to love. How to treat a woman in that way. He sees women as sexual objects and knows nothing of the joy of spending time with a woman outside of the physical kind. Apollo knows only too well, and that is why he is lost.”
“Why are you telling me this?” I cock my head to one side and Dimitri smiles softly. “Because I have never seen him look at anyone the way he looks at you. You give me hope, Melissa. If you are not interested, tell him that. But if what I believe will happen turns his world upside down, I’m hopeful you will both remain standing together.”
He smiles and then stands, a powerful figure blocking out the sun’s rays, and he says evenly, “You should change now. Adonis said something about riding this afternoon.”
