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“Good,” she finally responds. But the soft moan she lets out as her body tilts back into mine belies the word.
For all that I have grown tired of our games, I can’t help but want to play this one a little longer. The one to see who can bluff the longest.
“It hardly matters if you’re leaving when this is all over, right?” My lips form the question as they skate down over her shoulder, then back up to her neck, finally resting at the spot just below her ear that drives her crazy.
A gasp leaves her perfect mouth, and she arches her back, pressing herself fully against me. My hands begin the slow, torturous roam of her body as hers reach up to entwine in my hair.
The temptation of her exposed skin is too great. I need her. All of her.
“Of course I’m leaving,” she purrs, pulling a fistful of my hair.
It’s an effort to remember what she’s even talking about, an even greater effort to care.
“Why wouldn’t I?” she demands as she rakes her nails down my scalp.
Seven Hells.I spin her around to face me.
“No reason at all,” I respond, my lips crushing against hers.
In one quick movement, I lift her up. She wraps her stocking-covered legs around my waist as I carry her to the bed.
Aika’s deft fingers have already undone the laces on my shirt by the time her body hits the mattress. She yanks the fabric over my head and throws it onto the floor to join the rest.
She wastes no time before pulling me back down to her again. Her kisses are maddening. Every sweep of her tongue is intentional as she tastes me, bites me, devours me. None of it is enough.
It’s never enough.
For either of us.
And for all that she claims she’ll leave after this, I can’t help but wonder if that’s just another example of her words not matching up with her actions.
With that thought, I pin her hands above her head, enjoying the way a fire ignites in her obsidian eyes. With the other hand, I swiftly remove the remaining fabric between us.
Then I meet her mouth again, roughly claiming her with my lips, my teeth. A small gasp floats from her mouth into mine before I move my ministrations to her neck, then lower.
Nothing between us is solved. There are still too many variables. Too many unasked and unanswered questions.
But right now, this feels like a solution, like the answer to the only question that has ever mattered.
Right now, this feels like everything.
CHAPTERTHIRTY-NINE
AIKA
This morning isn’t half as awkward as yesterday was, but maybe that’s only because I slept so well.
I can’t get attached to the feeling of waking up in Remy’s arms when we both know this isn’t permanent, even if there was a challenge in his voice when he brought it up yesterday. Those aren’t things I can afford to think about right now, not when it’s such a dangerous time to be distracted.
Still, I allow myself another…distraction, pulling Remy from his sleep with my not-so-gentle touches. He doesn’t protest, responding in kind before his eyes are even open.
It’s no surprise when we walk into breakfast several minutes late. His sisters eye us like they know exactly why we weren’t on time before Grandmère puts an end to any lingering subtlety.
“Looks like those heirs won’t be much of a problem,” she comments gleefully from behind her martini glass.
I glance at Remy, expecting Grandmère’s observation to tug at the wounds we haven’t bothered to address, but he’s only smirking. So I just shrug.
It’s hard to be upset in the wake of the morning we had.
