Page 57 of Let Me Protect You

Chapter 29

Elias

For the entire rest of the day and through the night, Harmony was like my own personal religion, and I worshipped her body over and over until we were both spent. In the shower. In the small living room. On the tiny kitchen counter. Anywhere that has a surface, we fucked on it until I had her screaming my name like a chant.

It feels like an eternity ago that she tried attacking me with a knife outside her sister’s house, thinking I was an intruder. I look down at her, and for once, everything in the world feels right. Her light brown hair is in her face as she breathes softly. I tighten my arms around her, and my dick hardens.

Down boy. Let her rest.

She peeks an eye open and laughs softly. “How can you still be hard?”

“Sorry.” I press my lips to hers, and she sighs into me. “Go back to sleep. I have to go somewhere today, so rest up.”

She grinds her hips into me, making me groan. She’ll be the death of me.

I attempt to pull away, but she wraps her legs around me. “I promise to make it up to you later.”

Harmony pretends to think for a moment. “So, I should rest up for round twenty?”

“What can I say? We have to make up for all the time we lost.”

“In that case …” Her hands move down my naked chest, straight down to my boxers, and she slips her hand inside, gripping my dick. I grab her wrist, stopping her. She juts out her bottom lip in a pout.

“Baby, as much as I want to fuck you again, I have a meeting.” I check my watch. “I only have thirty minutes, and I still have to shower and get ready.”

Harmony cocks her head to the side, her hair falling into her face again. “Where do you have to go? I thought we were hiding out?”

I sigh and untangle myself from her pretzel limbs. If we are going to have a healthy relationship, I can’t keep secrets, but if she knows I’m meeting with Victor, she’ll want to come. And if someone finds out that she’s seeing him, even not romantically … I can’t even think about it. But this meeting is necessary, so I have to go.

He has answers I need.

“Just rest up.” I kiss her forehead. “Order some room service, and watch a movie. You won’t even notice I’m gone.”

She quirks an eyebrow, but before she can argue, I take the blankets off and scoot to the edge of the bed. Her arms wrap around my torso, and she snuggles into my back. My chest tightens, but I can’t give in. If Victor has resources that he’s willing to use to help us, I can’t turn them down just because of pride.

“Give me a few hours, and then you can ride me until sunrise.”

She frowns and says, “Fine. But I’m not waiting for you to return to order room service.”

I give her one last kiss. She immediately deepens it, her tongue lashing out at mine. I groan.

Fuck, I can’t let her stop me now. I pull away, and she whines.

“You’re so needy.”

She giggles. “Don’t pretend you hate it.”

“I don’t, but I do need to shower so I can get going.”

She finally releases me so I can get ready. Once out the door, I wait until I hear all the locks click into place. Two guards stand outside the room, neither of them making eye contact with me.

I guess they heard how Harmony and I passed the time in there.

I make my way through the hotel and head down toward the conference room. Exiting the elevator, I turn left, skirting reception. The place is teeming with people as if someone is having a party. An elderly couple is checking in while people who look in their twenties sit in the lounge. Too many unknowns here but it’s still safer than Granite Falls.

Crystal chandeliers hang from the high vaulted ceilings, glaring off the porcelain tile floors. Silk covers the windows. I quicken my pace as I leave the reception area and head down a hallway, passing the gym. Allowing Harmony to distract me even for a few minutes is going to make me late.

It’s so easy to get lost in Harmony that I forgot to ask what our future holds. I run my fingers through my short hair. After her anonymous threat is gone, will she still leave like she told me before?