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“You,” my pussy literally answers for me.
“Say it again,” he demands, gazing at my lips as if he can see the word on my tongue needing to be released again.
“It's you I want.” My lashes flutter before I register what I'm doing.
He can't get away with this. He doesn't get off that easily. Not with me.
“But you can't act like that in front of people.” I break through the intoxicated haze, pushing him away from me until there's at least a good three feet between us again. “You broke a glass in your hand!”
“I wanted to break his face,” he growls, staring into me. “The glass was a suitable alternative, considering.”
“Lake,” I scold before I soften my tone. “I was trying to introduce him to someone who's become important to me.”
He stalks me back towards the wall again, placing a hand on the brick above my head and leaning over me as I bump into it. I feel the shift in energy, and his eyes are suddenly burning through me like they did that night in the hotel room.
“Important to you?” he asks, his tone cracked, lips inches from mine. “You were?”
I can smell the slightest hint of alcohol on his breath. His masculine scent of spice and woodsy nature floods me, and my insides come alive again. I'm drowning. Deep waters, pulling me down.
“Yeah.” I can barely form the word with the way my lungs feel, as if they are caving in on themselves.
He tilts his head so his nose is by my hair. He breathes me in, then runs his nose down until his face nuzzles along my neck. I swallow, feeling drunk off of this sensation when I feel his lips graze my skin. They draw a line from my neck to my ear, where he whispers, “I want you so bad it hurts.”
I feel how badly he wants me. I feel it against my hip as he towers over me.
“Lake,” I whisper breathlessly, forgetting why we were even back here.What did I need to say to him?
“I want you,” he says again, rolling his head along mine until our foreheads touch and the clouds of our breath in the cold fall night connect between us. “Why don't you want me?”
I can't answer that. It's not that I don't want him. I want this fantasy I've played out in my head since that night in the hotel to become my reality. I want us to express ourselves the way we want, but how do I do that and somehow keep my career? I want him, but I need me.
As much as I don't want to admit it, Lake's kind of my meal ticket to get Colin and me into a better situation, better opportunities. There's a weird line between us we just need to balance on for the time being, and I wish he'd accept that.
“Tell everyone in there I'm yours and I'll give you the world,” he whispers against my lips.
I pull back from him, my brows lowering as a new emotion clears the fog he always surrounds me with.
“That's where you got me wrong, Lake. I don't want the world from you. I want the world for myself, and while I’m flattered by your interest, I’m definitely not going to feed into your toxic alpha-male energy, allowing you to claim me in front of all your teammates like a piece of meat.”
I go to move around him but he throws up an arm, blocking me from leaving before pushing me back against the wall.
“Lake,” I warn.
“Okay, okay…” He blinks, trying to get me to stay while looking flustered. “I'm sorry for acting so...possessive.”
“I need you to rein it in,” I tell him. “People are already getting suspicious.”
“I know, I know,” he says, running a hand down his face before placing it on the wall behind me again. He's still pressed against me, as if moving is something he has no intention of doing. “I'll rein it in. I promise. I'm a man of control who practices intense discipline, and yet, when it comes to you...I'm just...I can't…”
His eyes reflect just how out of control I seem to make him. As much as the feeling makes me weak in the knees, I also know I have to be the one to keep this in check.
Professionalism.
Conduct.
Responsibilities.
But being the responsible one is tiring, and I'm sick of always keeping life in order, especially when he's looking at me like that, like if he can't have me, he has nothing.
