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One woman has her hand on his shoulder, the other touching his knee. I should remove those hands right now, but that would cause a bit of panic what with all the blood that would result from such a move.
And he doesn’t seem to be upset. Or brooding. Or even angry. None of those emotions that Veda said he was feeling and I certainly felt when I opened myself to him.
I guess he found the cure to his malady.
Women.
Frail, simple-minded, mortal women who could never hope to please him the way—
He senses me.
I see his body tighten and then Maddox’s eyes move past the group and land right on me without even needing to look around. His laughter dies, but a smile remains on his face as he does a lazy perusal of my body. I flush hot and it has nothing to do with the tropical sun beating down on me.
It’s because he looks like he could eat me up.
“If you’ll excuse me,” Maddox says, rising from his perch and pushing past the women. “My woman is here.”
My woman?
His drink is still in his hand as he wades through the waist-deep water. I move to the side of the pool to meet him.
When he reaches the edge, I glance back at the female gaggle. They’re all looking at Maddox with longing. A few of them glare at me.
Maddox’s hand wraps around my ankle and slides up my calf. I glance down and he’s even more beautiful as his head tips back to look at me, the sunshine hitting him full in the face and making his green eyes lighten to peridot.
“In all the months we’ve been fucking, you’ve never once sought me out,” he says, his voice sounding languid… almost slurred.
I frown. “Are you okay?”
“Fine,” he says with a careless wave of his drink, spilling some into the pool water. He brings the straw to his lips, takes a long sip, and grins at me. “More than fine.”
“Are you drunk?” I ask in disbelief.
His hand slides higher up my leg, and I ignore the tingles it causes. “Don’t be ridiculous. Immortals can’t get drunk.”
“Then what’s wrong with you?” I ask suspiciously.
He reaches into his swim trunks and pulls out a tiny glass vial. “I’m extremely buzzed.”
I grimace as I bend over and snatch it from him. I hold it up to the light and squint at the amber-colored liquid inside. “What is this?”
“No clue. Got it off a Dark Fae down some dark alley. Said it was guaranteed to take my mind off my troubles, and it seemed to be working. But then you showed up and you are always trouble. But the good kind.”
I glance back at the bar, the women still watching with hope. “Looks like you had your mind off your troubles just fine,” I mutter.
Maddox glances over his shoulder at them and grins. When his attention comes back to me, his hand squeezes my calf. “Them? They’re no one. Diversions.”
“Do you fuck diversions?” I demand, feeling the snap of electricity in my fingertips.
He might be slightly inebriated, but Maddox’s gaze turns hard, his voice low and clear. “I only fuck you, Zora.”
There’s no describing the sweet relief and gratitude that sweeps through me, especially since I can’t quite give Maddox what he really wants.
A piece of my heart.
“You got a room here?” I ask, and I swear, flames leap in his eyes.
“Yeah. Is that where you want to go?”
