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“But I am not going out to have fun. This is a professional appointment.” He stares me down. “I’ll be back around midnight.”
“I’ll be asleep as long as you need.”
I’m finally by myself and I’m able to turn down for the evening. I still had to do the same song and dance with Val. At least I convince her I want to be left alone faster than I did Jonah. She leaves me with a tea service and tells me the cart knows to return to the kitchens in the morning.
I’m finally able to settle into bed all cozy when I hear it again. The tingling harmonics. I fiddle with my ears as if it’s something that stuck inside of it. But I know the source. I feel a gust of wind come through the door and a slight knock sounds on it.
I want to ignore it and settle into sleep, but I know that I’ll never be able to. Besides, I feel horrible about how I left Lucky, and how the last words he will remember me by is telling him he has no soul.
I throw off my covers and head to the balcony door and open it. Sure enough, he is standing there with a couple of apples in his hands.
“Is this your version of a peace offering?” I ask.
He shrugs. “I just like apples…and being able to snatch it from Tor’s orchard without him catching me.” His smile is so devastatingly handsome and lethal as a blade.
If I’m not careful, I’ll end up gouging out my heart with it. “Do you do things just to get under people’s skin? Is that it?”
Emotions flicker over his face, too fast for me to catch. “Look. I wasn’t looking for a fight.” He hands me an apple, and I automatically take it.
My fingers brush against his for a barest moment. The harmonic bells trill louder this time. Heat and light shimmer inside my mind’s eye; the more I wish to chase it, the quicker it slips from my grasp.
Our gazes meet, and I lose myself in all the things he doesn’t say. “Don’t say anything.”
I’m not sure what I intended, but what I end up doing is grasping his face between my hands and kissing him. Our lips touch for a scant moment. Barely a breath.
But in that span of time, the world disappears, and there’s only silence between us.
“I will not apologize for doing that,” I say. “Because it’s finally gone.”
His gaze darkens. Understanding blooms between us without an explanation. He knows the ‘it’ I’m referring to. “Then I won’t apologize for this.” He tilts my face up and places an answering kiss on my lips. The more he touches me, the calmer I feel. Less agitated.
A different heat blooms from my center, unfurling from my heart and stretching beneath my skin. Damn, everything feels too tight. Too constricted.
I need something. What? I’m not sure, and I don’t want to stop tasting him long enough to ask. Who knew someone could taste so delicious?
As if he knows me better than I know myself, Lucky lifts me and wraps my legs around his waist. I instinctively roll my hips against his hard body. The delicious friction elicits a groan from deep inside me.
Yes, that’s it. That’s exactly what I need.
I somehow get walked back to my bed, and Lucky lays me there and continues kissing me. He moves down my body, sucking my earlobe and down my neck. I catch my breath as he does so.
His hand is so rough and big feel delicious as the callous palm rubs over my skin. He comes back to kiss me and his tongue dips inside my mouth to taste me, at the same time his finger goes under the edge of my panties and finds my heated core.
I groan into his mouth, digging my hands into his scalp, trying to be careful of the feathers there. He does not have the same compunction.
With one hand fisting my hair, he bends me back the way he needs to position me while his other hand rips my underwear off. He delves inside my core, stretching my channel with just two fingers. Using his thumb to play over my clit—oh my goddess, I’m ready to burst.
With the overwhelming sensations building within me, pleasure builds so quickly that I am screaming my release in no time.
Lucky nuzzles my neck, placing his mouth near the shell of my ear. “You’re going to do that again.”
Breathless, I nod. Something we can agree on.
With his hot, sucking mouth, Lucky traces a trail back down my body until he arrives at the juncture of my thighs. There, he licks my slit, circling my sensitized clit with his tongue as I writhe beneath him. He works his fingers inside me once more, coaxing me to another breaking point.
The harmonic tones that sing between us build to a crescendo. Pleasure seizes my body. I tangle my fingers into the feathers on his head. With my other hand, I grasp my nipple, squeezing it as Lucky brings me over the edge.
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