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He studies the image for a moment before dropping it back on the counter without a single word. But his lip twitches. Once. Twice. He catches it with his teeth and tries to hide the telltale tic. Then he leans against the counter and squeezes my hip like he’d tear my clothes off right here, while he whispers close to my ear, “I could help you with that if you like.”
“No. That won’t be necessary.” I hide behind my hands. “I don’t even know how that got in there. I should just put it back.”
“Don’t you dare leave that out,” he tells the assistant before he leads me away from the counter. “We were all over each other from the very beginning. We have this tension… this attraction between us that burns like damn wildfire. You don’t remember that and it feels crazy to you right now. You’ve been through so much. So if you need… relief… I am buying you that toy. Or…”
“Or what?”
“You could always use me,” he says.
A montage of our bodies moving together spins out in my head. I’m on top with my hands on his chest as I ride him. He has hold of my hips and he’s rolling them to get the angle of my clit right. Our flesh is sweat soaked. Hot. Breaths mingling into an erotic soundtrack. It’s so vivid it could be real. I can practically smell the sex in the air.
“I can be that for you. If that’s what you want,” he says. “I can be your toy.”
“Ivy, check out how cute…” I glance up to in time to see Adira duck down another aisle. “Oh my God, are those sequins?”
“He heard me, hmm?” Rogue’s eyes widen and he moves his hand over his mouth to hide a smirk.
“That seems like a yes.”
He touches my jaw. “Think about it?”
As if there’s any way I couldn’t.
His phone starts to ring at the same time the sales assistant gestures that she’s finished with my items.
“I’ve got to take this.” He swipes across the screen and puts it to his ear as he walks out of the store.
“You two are sickening.” Adira dumps his items on the counter. Including a thong with purple sequins that is so not his thing. He makes a face. “Let me be your sex toy. Blech. Sickening.”
“I’m completely mortified.”
“You’re considering it.” He smiles as the woman takes off the security devices and puts his goodies in a bag. “I would be if I were in your shoes.”
“Me too,” the woman says wistfully.
I can’t believe we’re having this conversation. “I’ll make do with the vibrator.”
“Sure you will,” Adira says as we walk away from the sales assistant. “I give it a week.”
“That’s ridiculous.” I pocket Rogue’s card until I can give it back to him.
“Is it?” Adira nudges my shoulder and waggles his eyebrows. “Is it really? You’re so into him. The two of you have been nothing but fire since you first met. Your memory hasn’t dulled that attraction, has it?”
“No. At least not physically.”
“I doubt you’ll be able to keep your hands off each other for long.”
“It’s more complicated than that,” I say. “There are strings. He’s emotionally involved, and I’m…”
“Not sure yet?”
“He has history, but before yesterday, he was a stranger to me.” Funny and charming and sweet to me… but still a stranger.”
“You’re not on the same page,” Adira says.
“No. We’re not.” I rub at a tender spot below my throat. “I don’t know if I’ll ever feel the same way I did when we were together.”
“It’s okay.” Adira wraps an arm around my shoulders. “It’s okay for you to be confused and to question everything. You’ve been through so much. And Rogue understands that. I promise you, that man is committed to putting you first. He’ll be as patient as you need him to be. But you don’t need to be afraid of your feelings either.”
