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“What do you care?” Aidan groused.
She blinked, taken aback once more by his tone. Then her eyes narrowed. “Oh, I get it.” To the others, she explained, “I took a kiss a little too far, and now he’s grumpy and frustrated.”
“Goddammit, Onnika!”
“What? It’s thistruththing you got me hooked on. It’s addictive. I blame you.”
The sounds of muffled snickering filled the room. The others found her amusing, but he was livid.
“Ash, take over,” Aidan growled, then dragged Onnika by the arm out to the passageway.
Breezily, she called back to the others, “Be back in a bit.”
When they were alone, he shoved a finger in her amused face. “Your games stop now.”
She didn’t look the least bit chastised. “Why? You like my games, and my games got you out here, didn’t they?”
“Thisis what you wanted? Me out here yelling at you?”
“Not exactly, no. Truth is, I was so turned on by your kiss earlier, I can’t sleep. All I can feel is you wanting me, and it has me so keyed up I can’t close my eyes without envisioning my legs wrapped around you.”
“Uh…” His throat went dry, and he suddenly couldn’t think of a thing to say.
She walked her fingers up his chest. “And maybeI’ma little grumpy and frustrated.”
He tried for sarcasm, but his voice came out too husky. “Is that right?”
She nodded, gazing up at him through her lashes. “Is there somewhere we can go that’s a little more private?”
Grabbing her by the hand, he led her down the passageway. “This had better not be another way for you to torment me, because Onnika, I swear to all that is holy, I can’t take it anymore.”
She only giggled like she was having great fun and scurried to keep up with him. By the gods, she drove him mad.
His room was the nicest of all, which didn’t say a lot. There wasn’t much to it: some shelves, a large porthole that spanned the length of one wall, a desk filled with random paperwork, mostly to do with race finances and inventory, and his bed. Normally he didn’t care what it looked like. Now he worried what she’d think of his private space.
After a cursory survey, she turned to face him, and the room fell away. That sexy, teasing glint in her eyes told him he was in trouble.
He was the dragon, but for the first time in his life he understood how it felt to meet a carnivore’s hungry gaze and realize he was about to be devoured.
She reached behind her and tugged on the tie at her neck. Her dress fluttered to the ground. She wore nothing underneath. Blood drained from his brain.
Slowly she turned in a sultry circle for him, and the flame of lust burned hotter. Facing the porthole, she glanced at him from over her shoulder, biting her pinky nail as though she was suddenly shy. Lies! She hadn’t been shy a day in her life.
She’d been right about one thing: He liked her games. Dammit.
He took his time drinking her in, this exquisite creature before him, and tried to etch every inch of her into his memory.
“Do you need help picking your jaw up off the floor?” she teased.
He closed his mouth, having not even realized it’d been open. “That’s not what I’m going to be needing from you.” His voice had changed, turning resonant and deep.
She laughed, gazing out over space, and then added the most delicious wiggle to her hips. “You have quite a view here.”
His tone rough, he retorted, “Best view in the universe.”
She gifted him another smile for that, then turned to face him fully. “So, I have a problem.”
His stomach twisted. “What’s that?”
