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“Why?”
“Not here. The walls have eyes and ears,” he whispered softly in my ear.
My knees buckled. I wanted more of him. So much more. I nodded and let him take me up the stairs. I didn’t have to look back to know the creepy guy was still staring at us, probably making sure I had been properly claimed. Jesus, how many women had fallen for this before?
“What the fuck is wrong with you?” He opened the door to one of the rooms and gestured for me to enter. When I did, he shut the door, then unbuttoned his jacket, just so he could properly level me with one of his glares.
The spell was broken. “What’s it to you? You’re not my keeper. I come here all the time.” I lifted my chin. “What are you doing here?”
“That’s none of your business.” He let out a breath as he studied my face and then my dress. It stung that he wasn’t ogling me. More like trying to figure out if I belonged in this place or not. “That guy.” He pursed his lips. After a few beats, he continued, “that guy was ready to take you with him.”
“I had it under control.” Shit, how was I going to play this off? I obviously had no clue what I was doing. And he knew that. I knew that. “I didn’t need your help.”
“It’s hunting season at the club, Donata.” He reached for my wrist and showed me the now super familiar golden stamp on my wrist. “And you’re the prey.”
“What?” I asked out of shock. “They didn’t tell me.”
“You’re going home.”
“Then take me home.” I crossed my arms over my chest.
“I can’t. I have things to do here.”
“Oh, is that so? Like what? Spank naked women?” I pointed in the general direction of the entrance.
He took my hand and pulled me toward him again. “You’re killing me. Why did you come here? I know you’ve never done this before.” He gripped my waist then did a double take on my breasts that now threatened to spill over my dress. “I know I was your first.”
“That doesn’t mean anything.” My voice was barely above a whisper. “Bad timing.”
“You didn’t come here to have sex.”
Technically, no. But I was most definitely open to the idea. I’d never been alone with Luca in a room with a bed. He’d never looked at me like this before—not counting the one lecture when he made me come in front of three hundred students.
“Why not?” I slipped my hands under his tuxedo jacket and pushed it off his shoulders. “You want me. I know you do. When you’re not fighting it, you do.”
“You don’t know what you’re asking.” He sounded defeated as he curved his body to encase mine. His hands moved down to my ass. In the same beat, he bent down and kissed me while he slipped his fingers under my dress and the barely-there thong. “You’re so wet.”
“You do this to me, Luca. How can you not know?”
“What the fucking fuck, Donata?” Enzo’s angry voice boomed in the room.
Luca let go of me like I was some sort of human hot potato. I reached for him to tell him he didn’t need to be afraid of Enzo. But he had already put distance between us and donned his jacket. His eyes no longer showed the lust I’d seen in them before. The spell had been broken again. Why was he fighting this?
“What are you doing here?” I gave him my best ‘you’re killing my vibe’ stare.
“You asked me to come find you.” His gaze shifted between Luca and me. “I was afraid you’d be in some kind of trouble.”
“She was.” Luca said through gritted teeth. His gaze showed nothing but contempt for me. “I brought her here to keep her away from the hunt.”
“Oh, my fucking God, Donata.” Enzo ran a hand through his hair in frustration. “I told you not to come here alone.”
“I didn’t know it was hunting season.” I used air quotes to emphasize how ridiculous this all sounded. “And the bouncer didn’t think to tell me.”
“How did you even get in?” Luca pointed at me then Enzo. “This club is by invitation-only. And don’t give me that bullshit of how you come here all the time.” He said this when I opened my mouth to explain.
“I found it on the web.” I shrugged, then met Enzo’s gaze.
Luckily, he understood my meaning. “It was a joke. That got out of hand. But now we’re leaving.” Enzo offered me his hand.
