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enya with third-rate equipment. And, not only that, she’d done all that with an inner strength that shone through the footage, surrounded by people who had clearly held her in high regard.
She’d spent some of the past year volunteering. I couldn’t name a single member of my family who would devote their time to charity unless it came with a tax write-off or a star-studded gala where they could show off their diamonds.
And besides the awe-inspiring act of giving birth, the most striking thing about Calypso Xenakis was the determination I’d seen on her face in that video.
It had sparked something inside me. A need for...more.
That intoxicating little incident on the sofa this afternoon, compounded by the kiss on the balcony this evening and watching her nurse our son, was what had finally fully awakened the primitive beast inside me. The video was evidence of her strength and resilience, despite my less than stellar behaviour last year.
Even confessing the true relationship between myself and my father—a subject I’d never discussed with another living soul—had felt...liberating. That we were both products of our circumstances had triggered an affinity in us that had in turn laid out a different way to approach what had been thrust on us.
Perhaps it didn’t need to be finite.
That admission to do things differently this time had surprisingly settled deep inside me.
The Calypso I’d married had possessed a banked fire.
The woman who’d returned from her mysterious absence was flame and grit.
Heat I was unashamedly drawn to. Grit I wanted to explore.
Both characteristics drove me after her.
I arrived in the suite just as she was entering her own bedroom. I stopped her with the simple act of capturing her delicate wrist. The electricity of contact simply reaffirmed my decision.
She waited, one eyebrow elevated.
Theos mou, did she know how alluring she was, with her blue eyes daring me even as her agitated breathing announced that she wasn’t unaffected by this insane chemistry?
‘I want you, Calypso. And unless I’m wildly off-base you want me too.’
‘That’s it? Surely you have better negotiating skills than that, Axios?’ she taunted.
The breathless sound of my name on her lips escalated the heat pounding through my bloodstream. I wanted to kiss her. To prove with deeds instead of words how combustible this thing between us was.
‘You’re not the same woman I left on Agistros last year. I see that now.’
More than that, she had the power to walk away again if she chose.
The strange sensation of being on slippery ground forced me into further speech, even as I questioned the wisdom of the route I was taking.
‘Come to my bed—not because of our agreement or because of your ultimatum. Do it because you want to. Because we can make each other feel things we’ve never experienced before.’
Her lips parted in a soft gasp. ‘You... I do that to you?’
I couldn’t help the hoarse laughter that was ejected from my throat. I dropped her wrist and removed myself several mind-clearing paces away.
‘Barely two hours ago, I was close to saying to hell with propriety and taking you on that balcony. What do you think?’
Despite the heat flaming up her face her shoulders went back, accepting her power over me. It was all I could do to remain standing where I was and not stride across the room to demonstrate just how much the hunger inside me lashed through her too.
But this was too important.
I wasn’t an animal, and she needed to grant me clear acknowledgement of her desire before it would work. But it was going to work. There were no viable alternatives to allay this...this insane craving inside me save for the highly unsatisfactory avenue of self-pleasure, which I wasn’t willing to consider any more.
‘I’m a man with healthy appetites, Calypso. And I haven’t had sex since our wedding night. Do you know that?’
She gave another gasp, this time a heated one that went straight to my groin. She backed against the door, as if putting distance between herself and the live wire of desire lashing us would work.
