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“So you don’t regret it?”
Keeping my eyes locked on his so he could see the truth within, I slowly shook my head. “Not anymore. Not now that I’ve had time to process everything.” I draped an arm over his shoulder as I hoisted myself onto my toes, inching my mouth toward his. “In fact, I’d like to do it again.”
He moved a hand to my hip, his hold resolute and commanding. Then he curved toward me, erasing the remaining space between us. But before he could kiss me, I pressed a finger to his lips.
“I just need you to promise me something first.”
He straightened. “Whatever you need, Imogene. Say it, and it’s yours.”
“Just be patient with me. I haven’t been with anyone in close to five years. Not like this anyway. Not when it means something to me.”
His Adam’s apple bobbed up and down as a flicker of something flashed in his eyes. I couldn’t quite describe what it was. Guilt? Pity? Maybe surprise?
“I mean something to you?” His normally determined voice faltered slightly.
“You do. More than I thought possible after…well, after only knowing each other a short time,” I explained, stopping myself short from bringing Samuel into this.
As much as I would always love Samuel, Melanie was right. It was time to let him go and move on. Find someone new who could make me happy.
I’d never be able to do that as long as I still clung onto his ghost as tightly as I had.
“I promise to be patient.” Gideon brushed his warm lips against mine. “We’ll take it at your pace, no matter how slow. After all…” He placed a hand on my hip, guiding me across the room and toward the bed. “Going slow can be just as pleasurable.”
The slow, tantalizing rhythm of his body pulsing against mine set me on fire. Each movement was a seductive dance, each touch sparking a hunger I didn’t think would ever be satisfied. At the feel of his erection circling against me, a whimper fell from my throat. Moisture pooled between my thighs, the blood in my veins growing hotter with every second I didn’t feel his skin on mine.
“What do you think, Imogene?” he crooned in that provocative voice I’d heard in my sleep every night. That had me waking up with my hand between my legs. That had my vibrator seeing more use than it had all year.
“Think you can be satisfied going slow?”
I dragged my fingers through his hair, my nails digging into his scalp. He closed his eyes, relishing in my touch as I skimmed my lips against his.
“With you, I have a feeling I’llalwaysleave satisfied.”
ChapterTwenty-Three
Gideon
This was exactly what I wanted. Why I knocked on her door in the first place.
Despite Henry trying to convince me that I didn’t need Imogene anymore, I wasn’t as convinced. Not with how obsessed Liam was with her. Hell, the sick fuck went so far as to pay a couple of assholes to kidnap her, for what purpose I still hadn’t figured out.
I needed to do this. Needed Liam to watch as Imogene slipped away and not be able to do anything about it. Needed him to know how it felt to lose everything.
And Imogenewaseverything to him.
But now that I was with her, felt her lips on mine, I couldn’t help but feel guilty for the way I was using her. Hadn’t she already been through enough?
Hadn’t I already caused her enough pain?
Was that enough for me to walk away, though? I wasn’t sure.
Worse, I was no longer sure if I was doing this as part of my plan for revenge, or because I was just as addicted to her today as I was all those years ago.
That was the problem with being an addict. It blinded you to any future complications. Nothing mattered except experiencing the high only that intoxicating elixir could provide.
Just like nothing mattered right now except experiencing the high Imogene’s lips against mine always provided, her tongue tempting and torturing me, making me desperate for more of her.
Making me desperate forallof her.
