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I know what she said last night. That I deserve more than a woman hung up on another man. Maybe she’s right. I don’t give a fuck. “Why don’t you let me be the one to make that decision?”
“I don’t want to hurt you,” she whispers.
As if being so close to her isn’t a glorious agony already. I don’t say it. My desires are not her responsibility. But last night changed things, whether she wants to admit it or not. She wants me too. Shelovesme, and not only as a friend. “Life is full of hurt, baby. I meant what I said. I won’t pressure you, and I won’t throw this shit in your face.” I should stop there. But she’s close and touching me, and I can’t let this moment slip past without telling her the full truth. “I know you have unresolved shit. I know your heart still hurts for him. But I’m not so selfish as to need your whole heart, Eurydice. Any pain that comes from being with you is far outweighed by the joy of having you in my life.”
“You really mean that.”
It’s not a question, but it demands an answer all the same. “I do.”
“And if I said yes? That I would give this a shot?”
My heart is pounding so hard, I’m surprised she can’t feel it. Maybe she can. “I’d like to say I’d take you home and romance you slow and sweet.”
“I don’t want slow and sweet, Charon. I don’t know if I ever did.” She drags her hand lightly down my chest to my stomach. She’s moving slowly, giving me plenty of time to stop her. Gods help me, but I don’t. Not even when she cups my cock through my slacks. Eurydice squeezes me lightly. “What if I want fast and hard and…now?”
I have kept myself on a tight leash, and she’s doing her damnedest to pick it apart, thread by thread. “I am trying to do right by you.”
She leans back against the pillar. I can’t see her expression clearly, but I know her well enough now to know she’s got a challenge in her eyes. It’s a flicker I’ve seen more and more often in the last few weeks. I shouldn’t enjoy it as much as I do; when she’s challenging me, she’s not doing what I say, which means she might be acting out and putting herself in danger.
She’s not in danger right now.
I’m standing between her and anyone that might be out on the street. I can’t claim to know every bit of her, not when she’s showing me glimpses of pieces I’ve never seen before. But I knowmyintentions.
“I am heartily tired of people thinking they know what’s best for me.” She rubs her thumb back and forth against the underside my cock where it flares. “Why don’t you start worrying aboutyou? What do you want, Charon? Right here? Right now?”
I want to marry you.
I won’t say it. I might be all in for this woman, but she’s not quite there yet for me. How can she be? Part of her still belongs to someone else. I’ve laid the groundwork for Orpheus to give thosepieces of her back, but who knows if he’ll take me up on it? Who knows if we even need him to anymore?
“Charon?”
There are a thousand ways this could go wrong. I meant what I said before about wanting to romance her soft and slow. But I’m not a fool. I know how to divorce what I think she should have from what she actually wants. “Is that what you want? Right here, right now?”
“And if it is?” There it is again, that brattiness that I want to wrap up and bolster for the rest of my fucking life.
I shift closer, pressing my cock more firmly against her palm. “Prove it.”
“Prove it?” She leans closer until her breath ghosts against the front of my throat. “Like this?” Eurydice hesitates, but I don’t have a chance to tell her to keep going. She undoes the front of my pants with quick fingers and delves her hand inside. “Or like this?”
The shock of skin against skin snaps what’s left of my leash. I wrap my hand around her wrist, pinning her to me. “You know how this works. Give me a safe word, baby.” Technically, this is a conversation we should have had well before it got to the point of her hand in my pants, but I might die if she stops touching me now.
“Lyre.”
I don’t ask why, but part of me can’t help wondering if the word has something to do with Orpheus. I push the thought away. “Good girl. Now, you have a choice.”
“Mmm.” She ignores my hand around her wrist and strokes me slowly, exploring the length of my cock. “What choice?” Her voice has gone low and sweet, but a thread of the earlier sauciness remains.
“You’re going to let go of my cock and walk with me to my car.”
Her grip tightens. “Or?”
“Or I’m going to fuck you right here in public where anyone walking past can see us claiming each other.” My brakes are gone. There are a thousand reasons not to do this right here, right now, but I can’t think of a single one. Not with her little gasp of surprise ghosting against my throat. “Decide, Eurydice.”
She makes me wait, the little brat. She strokes my cock another time, two, and I let her. I might be hanging on by a thread, but I won’t toss her over my shoulder and haul her cute little ass to my car. She has a choice. It’s a narrow choice, but it’s still a choice.
For the second time this week, I have absolutely no idea what she’s going to do.
“Quite the decision.” She inhales deeply and drags her nose over my throat. “It’s cold out here. Take me to your car.” Eurydice kisses my neck. “Anyone walking by can see still us…claiming…each other.” Her hand tightens around my cock. “But at least we’ll be warm.”
