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He subtly shakes his head. “Not like you. Whatever you need, it’s yours.”
“As long as it’s what you want?” I arch a brow.
He takes his hands from me and rests them on the side of the pool by my head. “So take what you want from me, Everleigh.”
“I want nothing from you.” I deny.
He doesn’t call me out on what is so clearly a lie. If I didn’t want something from him, I wouldn’t be tucked up against him like this. I may not have wrapped my legs around him, but I’m making no move to go anywhere.
“What I want is for you to have what you need.” His eyes sweep over my face. “If you don’t trust me to give it to you, take it from me. I will never refuse you.”
“You expect me to believe that?” I don’t even try to hide my disbelief.
“Believe inme. You wouldn’t have jumped into my arms when I told you I would catch you if you hadn’t already.” His expression is determined. “This is the same thing.”
It’s not the same thing.
At Lawrence’s party, he was practically a stranger, but I believed the look in his eyes that promised he wouldn’t let me fall. What he’s asking from me feels like something even more valuable than my life.
My trust. That’s what he wants from me.
I lift my fingers to his jaw, my eyes dipping to his mouth.
He doesn’t move, but his focus sharpens as I lean a little closer and press a soft kiss on his lips. He doesn’t return it, though his muscles tense and his breathing deepens. Backing up, I brace myself for him to drag me back and take what he wants like any alpha would.
At no point does he take his hands off the pool lip.
“You didn’t kiss me back.”
“Is that what you want?” His voice is husky.
I want so many things from the alphas in this house I don’t know how to voice them all.
“Everleigh?” Kylian asks. “Do you want me to kiss you?”
With my eyes fixed on his, I slowly nod.
His gaze darts to my lips. “There? Or did you have somewhere else in mind for my kiss?”
I slide my legs around his hips, and he releases a slow, deep breath when it aligns his cock right to my entrance. Thin silk panties and soaked cotton make for a poor barricade, but they prevent him from going any further.
He flashes me one of the wicked smiles that’ve been missing in action these last few minutes. “So, this kiss? Where do you want it?”
The impact of those words, that wicked smile, and the finger he runs up and down the back of my neck converge in one place. Andonlyone place. I wiggle, grinding myself on his cock. As if my pussy is saying, right here, please.
“Hmm...” He’s smiling, his eyes turning liquid silver as his lips feather over mine. “I think I can guess where you want it.”
Unable to keep my hands to myself for a second longer, I stroke my palms up under his soaked shirt, digging my fingers into the hard muscles in his back. “Kylian…”
“Let’s see if I’m a little more successful at making you feel good than I was at making you smile, huh?” he breathes his question against my lips. Before I can answer, he kisses me, his hands locking tightly on my hips as his tongue sweeps into my mouth.
I know what he’s doing.
I’m not ready to face everything I need to face. But I’m going to have to. And soon.
Something is broken in the city, and we might be the only ones who know it. I don’t want to learn the corruption—if that’s what it is—spreads further than one free clinic, but I think it does. I’m terrified it does.
For a little while at least, I grip Kylian’s face, lean my head back on the edge of the pool, and let him drive all those disturbing thoughts from my mind.
