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There. He could put that in his pipe and smoke it.
She dropped her hold-all on the floor of her side of the massive walk-in closet before kicking off her shoes and stowing them with her others. Passing Lysander on her way through the bedroom, she did her best to ignore his brooding presence. Which was a total failure as every nerve ending in her body sparked from his nearness.
Rowan stripped and tossed her clothes in the hamper before stepping into the oversized marble shower. Turning on the water, she jumped as cold water showered down before the hot water followed. It was only a second or two, but it woke her up.
"No need to punish yourself with a cold shower," Lysander drawled as he stepped in behind her.
"I'm not," she groused. "I've done nothing that needs punishing."
"You know I work long hours. I expect you to be here when I am."
Heck to the no. "If you want my company, you canaskfor it."
"I told Klaus I would be home tonight. Are you saying he didn't inform you?"
"No." Rowan put her head back under the cascading water and closed her eyes.
"So, why didn't you come home?"
"Because I was invited by my friends to join them for drinks."
"You could have gone for drinks with them any other night."
Lathering her hair, she opened her eyes to glare at her arrogant lover. "And you could have texted me instead of Klaus if you wanted my company."
Even if Lysander had textedher, Rowan would like to think that it was not a given she would have blown off her plans with her coworkers. Not in the habit of lying to herself, she acknowledged she probably would have. She missed spending time with her lover.
"Do not be childish. You knew I was going to be here."
That was the second time he'd implied she was behaving immaturely, and man did it prick her temper. "There is nothing puerile about expecting common courtesy."
His dark gaze traveled over her body, leaving heated sensation in its wake. "No, there is nothing childlike about you. I should have said obstinate."
"You think I'm being stubborn?" she asked, her own gaze narrowed even as her vaginal walls contracted with the need to have him inside her.
Ignoring her body's cravings, she rinsed her hair and waited for his answer.
It came in the form of his hands cupping her breasts. "Yes, I think you were foolishly stubborn to spend the evening with your friends when you could have been here, doing this with me."
CHAPTER 25
"Sex isn't everything." And they'd agreed it wouldn't be the only thing between them either.
"But it is something good," he said. "Something special."
Rowan wasn't feeling all that special, no matter how intensely her body reacted to his touch. Not with him expecting her to abandon her plans at the last minute because he was going to be unexpectedly available.
Even worse if it wasn't unexpected. If he'd known from the beginning of their day that he would be back at the villa in time for dinner.
Unaware of her tumultuous thoughts, Lysander took the conditioner bottle from her hand. "Let me."
He squirted a fair amount in his hand and then worked it through her hair, massaging her scalp until she relaxed against him. Then, showing he remembered her routine, he began to wash her body with soapy hands.
As she might expect, her lover paid particular attention to her breasts and between her legs, but he also knelt so he could thoroughly clean each of her feet, rubbing his fingers between her toes.
Pleasure zinged straight from her feet to her core. Shocked at how good that felt, she gasped.
"You like that,yineka mou?"
