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His stomach muscles tighten, and he lets out a groan that nearly undoes me. Heat flares between my legs and I curl my knees around his hips, urging him close. He gives in to me, mouth opening over mine, his hips thrusting into my hand, fast, faster. His breathing spills over my lips and across my cheeks. I can barely breathe myself, his cock inches from my pussy, water splashing as I twist my wrist over and over.
His fingers tangle in my hair and he pins me to the wall of the bathtub, and he comes hard, his whole body wound up and tight. His come spills over my stomach, through the water, and I gasp to see his eyes, slitted open and meeting mine.
He’s staring at me. Like he wants to devour me. He kisses me again, manic and intent.
“You are mine,” he says, each word shuddering through me, as we still, together, in the warm bath, steam caressing our skin.
Movement to my left has me turning my head, and I freeze, the blood draining out of me, my whole body turning to ice.
Outside the footman stands there, shock on his face, taking us in, naked as the day we were born.
Oh…
Ohfuck.
30
Eva
“Father, why can’t you come back with us?” Madeline’s confused voice stabs into my temple. I barely slept last night. His grace spent most of the evening in his study at the lake house, avoiding me. I took dinner with Madeline in her bedroom, so as not to have to see the footman, whom, the duke assured me, would be dealt with.
I didn’t know what that meant. I don’t know what it means, as we’re outside, waiting to be loaded into a large, black SUV, with bullet-proof doors and thick glass windows. Had the one that brought us here had the same? I can’t remember.
“Because, my sweet, I have a meeting to make while I’m here, and you must get to your classes,” he says, picking her up off the ground. She squeals, her eyes lighting up. I try not to look at him. He’s in a suit, broad shoulders strong and firm as he holds her tight, hugging her. I can’t help but think of him, yesterday, undone with me, telling me that I belonged to him.
And now…
My stomach clenches on a breakfast of confusion and dismay. He hasn’t said hardly a few words to me.
He sets her back down as a driver comes around the back of the car to load our bags, opening the door up for us and setting a black leather step stool down.
“My lady,” he says to Madeline as he helps her into the car. My gaze flickers to the duke. He studiously disregards me, watching Madeline get settled.
“And when will you follow, your grace?” I finally ask, determined not to leave this place without him at least looking at me.
Look at me!
I take a step toward him, my breath catching in my throat. Everything we shared this weekend, and this is what he does? He acts as if he can’t even stand to look at me? I want to reach out to grab him by the collar of his suit jacket and shake him.
That’s silly, of course, he is much taller and stronger than me, and I couldn’t make him budge if I wanted to.
But I need to push him off balance, to make him feel an ounce of the distress I’m feeling in return, with the way he’s ignoring me, sending me back home, as if I’m done something wrong—
My eyes sting and heat and I blink away any hint of tears. I refuse to cry for him, not now.
That’s when he turns to me, his gaze meeting mine.
And I go still.
The fire in his gaze, the intense burning desire, strikes me like a wave of lava, incinerating me in one single moment.
His lips are pressed thin and tight together, like he’s daring himself not to say anything, and his fists clench at his sides. He does not look like a man who is bored of me, who had his satisfaction and is done with me.
He looks like he wants todevourme. Everyone around us will know, will see it. I can’t breathe. The whole world falls away from us, and it’s just our two selves, standing outside the lake house. The sound of the breeze in the trees is a distance muffled noise, fading in the power and intensity of the way he looks at me.
“Have a safe journey homey, Miss Bell,” he rasps, giving the briefest nods of his head. I curtsey, trying not to wobble as he turns away and walks back up the path to the lake house. I gulp.
“Eva, come read me a story!!” Maddie cries from within the car and I swallow again, my whole body wanting to shiver and shake.
