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Chapter Twenty-Six
-Dante-
IWANTED HER SO MUCHmy body called me a traitor for not giving it what it needed, but after last night’s revelations, there was no way in hell I could take advantage of her like that. I washed her hair, running my hands through her dark tresses, and wished that the circumstances were different.
My confession meant changes - for me and her. A change of attitude. A change in my lifestyle. Hell. For the first time in my life, I took a shower with a woman and enjoyed every damn minute of it.
And that scared me.
I turned off the shower and pulled Noemi out. I wrapped a towel around my waist then wrapped the other towel around her like a cape. Tugging on the corners, I pulled her to me. She looked better, but I could tell she was exhausted still. She needed to eat, and if I could convince her to do it, she needed to sleep before we tracked down her brother.
While I had work that needed to be done, I found myself oddly reluctant to be away from her. I didn’t want to miss a moment of being with her now that we’d crossed that barrier. I wanted to take every minute of her day and make it mine.
Fuck, she scared me. These were feelings that weakened men. This was what had brought down Troy and ended an empire.
I was just one man. I didn’t stand a chance.
“What’s going through that head of yours?” Noemi asked, tilting her head as she studied me.
I pushed damp tendrils of hair away from her face. I was so raw for her I didn’t even hesitate to answer.
“You. I can’t stop thinking about you.”
Her eyes widened in disbelief, but I couldn’t be stopped now that my truth was out.
“You scare me. I’ve confessed things to you, weakened myself for you. You have more power over me than I have over myself which makes you the only person in the world I’m afraid of,” I whispered longingly. “You terrify me. You always have.
“I’m afraid to be with you, but I’m even more afraid to be without you. I don’t know what to do about us, but I know that if I don’t do something, I won’t be able to breathe. I can’t even think right now because of you.”
Noemi didn’t say anything which was exactly what I needed. I didn’t want words, more fucking words. Yes, they mattered, but this was another first in my life. This time, I just wanted her silence because the look in her eyes was enough.
I didn’t have to wonder if she’d abuse the faith I placed in her by revealing my deepest secret yet. As weak as I was for her, I didn’t worry that she’d betray my confidence and wield the power I’d just given her against me. Instead, I felt a bolt of energy surge through me when she stood up on her tiptoes and left a soft kiss against my mouth.
She needed to rest, but my body screamed to seal my words with deeds, to love her untilshewas weak and as dependent on me as I was on her. To own her mind, body, and soul the way she had so easily taken ownership of me.
When her lips traveled from my mouth to my jaw, I started to give up, but I held on to my resolve. I wasn’t that much of a bastard, not for her. But when her hand slipped under the fold of the towel and I felt her soft touch on my hard dick, I groaned my surrender.
“Are you sure you want this? Now? Last night was hell. Maybe you should rest before we go see Willis.”
I tried to give her an out, but she stroked me with more confidence that I could resist. Strangled moans escaped me as I pushed forward, urging her to continue.
“I don’t need to rest. The past waited five years to raise its ugly head. It can wait a few more hours. What I need right now is you.”
With a growl of need, I stopped arguing with her. Bending slightly, I put one arm around her waist. She squealed as I hauled her up to my shoulder and walked into the bedroom with her soft breath in my ear. I lowered her to the bed and quickly followed her down. Towels were undone and in the way. I was tangled. She was stuck. She laughed when I couldn’t get the intruding fabric away from her body fast enough.
“Fucking hell,” I growled as I eventually removed the offenders and tossed them away.
Finally, we were skin to skin. My hardness to her softness. I braced myself over her, searching her eyes for anything that told me this was too soon.
All I found was a need that matched my own.
“I would never lie to you,” she whispered as her arms circled my neck. “I want you. I want this. Now.”
I don’t know the right words to describe such a kiss except to say that I kissed the hell out of her. Every pent up need I’d had for the last week burst forth. I wanted to devour her. Brand her. Make it clear to myself and the rest of the world that she was mine and no one,no one, was going to take her from me.
After the unintended foreplay in the shower, I didn’t have the stamina to last. I parted her thighs, groaning with relief to find her soaking wet for me.
“I can’t wait, baby girl,” I muttered against her lips as I settled between her eagerly parted legs. “I’ll make it up to you. Right now, I just fucking need to feel you.”
