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“I’m so sorry, Sheena,” he whispered, losing the battle he’d been waging with himself ever since she’d stormed into his life. “I’m sorry for hurting you. That is the last thing I want. Leaving you and going away that night was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I was, I am, so scared of what I feel for you. I thought that by keeping a distance from you, I’d be able to simmer down my feelings. But it didn’t work. I’ve been miserable the last month. Not a moment has passed that I haven’t thought of you. I picked my phone up a thousand times to call you or to message you, but like a fool, I didn’t, because I was trying to fight what I felt for you. But it didn’t work.” He sighed. “You mean everything to me.”
A delighted smile spread over her lips. “Then prove it.”
His eyes met hers, and he saw the determination and challenge in her gaze. Fire. She was all consuming fire, and he wanted to burn with her.
He tipped her face with his hand, watched her beautiful face, and saw the hope shining in her eyes. His heart melted as he confessed more of his feelings to her. “I haven’t stopped thinking of you since the first time I laid eyes on you. The things I want to do to you, the sounds I want to hear you make when I’m doing those things to you… Fuck. I want to hear you cry out my name. I want to hear the wordpleasespill from your mouth. I want to hear you beg. Damn. My list is huge.”
She gulped again. “You have a list?”
“A long one. But?—”
She kissed him before he could say anything else, silencing all his thoughts. A frenzy started. She kissed him like she couldn’t get enough, like he was going to disappear if she didn’t cling to him. Every inch of their bodies touched and breathed a collective sigh of relief, knowing what was to come. His lips parted, and she plunged inside, exploring, demanding, needing.
Heat; so much heat. It was rising, scorching the air around them. This want, this need… It had always been there. It had barely been assuaged that one time, over a month ago. But now, all that simmering, smouldering heat bubbled over, taking over his mind. There was no room for thoughts. Even his nerves were blazing, set alight by her need for him.
She was panting when she finally shifted to look at him again. “Let’s start from the top of your list and work our way down.”
He laughed.
“Just one thing, Rajiv,” she pouted, “I won’t beg.”
He wiped her pout away with his thumb. “I promise you, Princess, that tonight you will. And not just once.”
He leaned down and lifted her on his shoulder. Her squeal turned to a delighted laugh, a sound he cherished. He carried her to her bedroom and dropped her on the bed, staring at her beautiful face.
He’d wanted her since the evening she’d held a knife to his throat. He’d ached for her ever since the first time he’d kissed her, and here they were all alone, and she was questioning what he felt about her. Fuck. He could show her in a hundred different ways what he felt about her, what he wanted to do to her, and how he’d go about doing it. But first, she deserved his honesty.
“Are you sure about this, Princess?” he asked, looking her straight in the eye.
“Yes.”
“Sheena, don’t start thinking of marriage and commitment, okay?” The words felt like acid on his tongue even as he spoke them
“Marriage?” She laughed. “Are you mad? I haven’t thought that far.”
“One day you might if this becomes more for you.”
“Have you had this talk with every woman you’ve slept with?”
Without waiting for his reply, she stood and lifted that sexy golden dress off her shoulders, dropping it to her side. His jaw dropped. He took her in, every glorious inch of her. She was wearing only skin-colored lace panties and a matching strapless bra. So very sexy. His heart rumbled in appreciation. His mind began to plan all the ways he was going to make her his. She clicked her fingers in front of his face.
He blinked. Saw the cheeky smile that was painted on her face. Fuck. She was a temptress who knew exactly what she was doing to him.
“The thing is that you and I had just begun getting to know one another before you disappeared on me,” she began. “Yes, you told me why you did that, and I believe you. I also believe that you care about me. That is enough for now. I want to do this with you with no future plans or agenda in place. Besides, I want to learn all there is to know about you before we talk of marriage and babies.”
An image flashed in his eyes, of him and her with a dark-haired little boy with his amber eyes and Sheena’s beautiful smile. He imagined a little girl who looked like him and had Sheena’s lustrous hair. He stilled, and then his heart began to trumpet aloud as if warning him. He blinked those images away. That was not their future. But tonight, he would take a slice of heaven for himself.
She approached him, rising on her toes to kiss his cheek. “Can we get our lust out of the way before we plan for the future? Most of the time, I don’t even like you.”
She was so fucking adorable.
He smiled. “Good.”
“Now show me how you will better what you did to me the last time.”
God. He loved the way she challenged him, every single time.
He caressed her cheek with the back of his hand. “I’m going to blow your world, Princess.”
