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“Hmm,” I hum, rubbing my index casually along the line of her defined jaw. I can feel how stubbornly she sets her teeth against me. “We’ll see about that.”
She grabs my wrist, stopping me short. Her hand is so small that she can’t close her fingers all the way around my arm.
“Don’t even try, Tristan,” she says. “I’m not interested and it can’t be done.”
I move my palm down to collar her throat, her hand still wrapped around my wrist. She holds me as I hold her. I use my grip to pull her closer to me, so her front is pressed entirely against mine, my erection digging into her stomach.
“That’s what you said about me making you come,” I state, an arrogant smile pulling at my lips. My free hand wraps around her waist to grab her ass, palming it greedily and possessively. “Remind me, how long did that take me to disprove?”
She flushes, her cheeks heating adorably, and shoves at my chest. I don’t release her, I’m not ready to let her soft body go quite yet.
“Meet me in the back garden near the Roman statues by the tree line in twenty minutes,” I demand.
She pushes me again, in vain. A small, discontented noise erupts from her lips when I don’t even move.
“No,” she says, blowing a strand of hair out of her face.
This time, when she presses me back, I release her. I watch her ass sway as she turns and starts to walk away from me.
“Twenty minutes, Nera.”
She stops and looks at me over her shoulder.
“Why should I?”
I close the distance between us and clasp her hips. My hands are low enough that my fingers trail over the top of her pussy. I pull her back against me, my hard dick splitting the cheeks of her ass. He twitches, excited, sensing his future home is near.
I brush her hair behind her ear and then over her other shoulder, loving the way she shudders at my touch. My mouth finds the shell of her ear, but not before I glance at her face and see her gaze fixed unseeingly into the distance, entranced by the arousal that roars between us.
“Because you want to feel the way you felt when you jumped into that water again,” I whisper seductively. “That roaring in your belly, that fire in your veins.” I graze the shell of her ear, scraping her flesh with my teeth. “I’m the only one who can give you that.”
She flicks her gaze up at me and the emotion in them freezes me. Lust. Excitement. Fear. Anticipation. Uncertainty. They all war for dominance in the one look she aims at me.
I cup her nape and crush my mouth down on hers. An unrecognizable guttural groan crawls up my throat and thunders into the thick silence. She’s driving me crazy and she’s not even trying. I can barely go a couple minutes without touching her when she’s in front of me.
She bends an arm back and holds onto my neck, returning the kiss like her life depends on it. When I rip myself away, she sucks in a rough breath, her eyes dazed and unfocused.
“I’ll be waiting, Nera. Don’t be late.” I brush my thumb over her nose and then release her, stepping back and letting the darkness of the hallway envelop me.
She better show up. Although it makes no difference whether she voluntarily comes here or if I have to track her down. I’ve always had darker sexual fantasies and today I get to make one a reality.
Tonight, I hunt.
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Chapter 21
Nera
I’m determined to ignore Tristan’s orders and just go back to the party, leaving him waiting long into the night for me. Consequently, I’m surprised when I find my feet taking me not up the stairs and back towards the library, but down the steps in search of the back gardens.
I never did end up getting Carter a bottle of water. After Tristan left, I’d veered into the first bathroom I could find and stumbled against the wall to catch my breath like I’d just escaped a hunting predator.
Even now, my heart still beats rapidly thinking of the way he’d touched me, the way he’d kissed me. The dirty promises he’d whispered in my ear. My skin tingles almost uncomfortably, my body left unfulfilled.
He teased me, drove my nerves into a tizzy, and then walked away. He knows exactly what he’s doing, the bastard.
I open the door and my breath catches as the crisp air assaults me. I wrap my faux fur shawl around my shoulders and step outside. Adrenaline thrums in my veins as I walk down the terrace stairs and step down onto the grass. The forbidden and secretive nature of these meetings, of our affair in general, are so off brand for me. The taboo aspect of it only serves to make me more aroused.
