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Those were all good excuses, because it wasn’t like I wanted to leave. Sure, his place was a helluva lot more comfortable than mine, but I’d feel the same even if our situations were reversed.
I looked down at the arm he had lying across me and covered it with mine, gently so I wouldn’t wake him up. It was this small move Viper made in his sleep, as well as a hundred other little actions I don’t think he even realized he did, that told me this thing between us had veered into complicated territory. When we’d been in Miami, I worried that we wouldn’t be able to continue the casual hookups once we were back in New York, but now that we were here, I worried that neither of us would come out of this thing unscathed.
Viper stirred, his arm tightening around my waist before he stilled again, and as I looked at his face, my stomach flipped. Somehow along the way, and I couldn’t even pinpoint when, my guard had dropped and I’d fallen for him. I couldn’t even deny that truth to myself anymore, though I’d deny it to anyone else who asked—especially to Viper.
I rubbed my eyes with my free hand, wondering how the hell I was supposed to navigate this now. We’d both been on the same page, agreeing to the same terms about our non-relationship, and here I’d gone, doing something as stupid as falling for Viper. If he knew what I was thinking, I doubt he would’ve minded me running out on him at two a.m.
Dropping my hand, I let my eyes roam over his face. I wanted to reach out and trail my fingers along the stubble that lined his jaw, but if I did that, I’d keep going, down his neck, across his chest, over his abs, and farther down…
My stomach let out a growl of hunger, and I realized we hadn’t actually managed to eat the dinner we’d ordered. Viper had shoved the pizza in the fridge before dragging me into his bed, and that was the start of a marathon fucking that had lasted until about an hour ago. It hadn’t taken Viper long to fall asleep, but I’d stayed wide awake, my mind unable to shut the hell up.
When my stomach growled again, louder this time, I slowly moved out from beneath Viper’s arm, sliding out of the bed without waking him up. I quietly stepped into a pair of jeans and slipped out the door, heading toward the kitchen.
I made my way across the hardwood floors, grabbed a glass from one of the overhead cabinets, and then opened the fridge. I reached inside for the pizza box and put it on the counter before turning back for the Parmesan cheese, and then I reached for the bottle of Coke on the side door. Once I had everything I needed, I turned around to hunt down some napkins but startled when I found Viper leaning up against his kitchen counter watching me. With his arms crossed and jeans hanging low on his hips, it was close to impossible not to say screw the food and just go to him. Viper was so effortlessly sexy—even standing in his kitchen having just climbed out of bed, he oozed more sex appeal than someone who’d spent a good hour trying to look hot.
“You scared the hell out of me,” I said as Viper pushed away from the counter and walked toward me, his eyes taking a tour of all that I’d left bare. With the fridge still open behind me, it lit the kitchen area up enough that I could see the hunger in his dark eyes, but whether it was for me or the food we hadn’t eaten earlier, I had no clue.
“Did I?”
I chuckled as he took the Coke and cheese out of my hands and put them on the counter, and when he turned back to me and walked forward, trapping me between himself and the open fridge, I had my answer.
That hunger, the craving I could see in his eyes? It was all for me.
“You gonna let me shut the fridge?” I asked as Viper held my chin in place, then he leaned in and flicked his tongue across the corner of my mouth.
“Not yet,” he said as he nipped at my lower lip. “I like the way the light makes your skin look…like gold.”
I groaned and reached for Viper’s hips as he trailed his fingers down my throat, and then he slid his palm around under my hair to grip the back of my neck. As he kissed his way along my jaw and slid his fingers into my hair, I tugged on the loops of his jeans and ground my stiffening cock against him.
Viper growled and pressed his lips to the soft skin behind my ear, his warm breath in direct contrast to the cool air of the fridge behind me.
