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“Okay.”
“I expect a report every night when I call. No exceptions.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Good. Now leave.” The front door hasn’t fully closed when I enter her kitchen, leaning against the doorframe to watch her. She’s wiping down cabinet doors while muttering under her breath, ignoring my presence. “Talk to me, love. What upset you?”
Venus doesn’t pause in her cleaning but tilts her head to let me know she heard me. “Too much at once. This is all so overwhelming.”
“I can understand that, but—”
“Why is there a but in there?”
“Look at me.” She doesn’t, and I push off the wall to walk over, taking the dishrag from her hand and settling that, and bottle atop the counter. There’s a small whine of protest and I get a dirty look when she looks up, but at least I have her full attention. “Much better.”
“You’re not going to let this go?”
“No.” A single tug to her arm and she’s standing upright, both hands on her hips. I lift her small frame, loving the way she immediately wraps those pretty thighs around my waist. She’s so warm and soft, melts into me, and I walk us back toward the bedroom.
Her bed is still unmade. The room still holds a small hint of her earlier release.
Lying us down in the center, I remove her top and mine, rolling onto my back before pulling her in close. I need to feel her skin to skin. Aliana doesn’t complain, her willing body burrowing closer until half her lithe curves cover my harsher planes. It’s perfection.
To feel her like this is my version of heaven.
We don’t talk. I have a feeling she needs this. To just enjoy the silence, and I’ll be whatever she needs, whenever it’s needed, until I have her full trust.
That’s not to be mistaken with sainthood. My moves in the shadows will always be dark.
“I know you mean well,” is the first thing she says after a while. Her fingers are busy tracing the lines of the Jameson name across my abdomen in Old English and leaving behind a trail of heat over every inch she touches. It’s maddening, but at the same time absolutely fascinating how enraptured I become in her presence. “So please understand when I ask that you give me time. We just met, Callum. Literally. I’m still trying to wrap my head around you and this...” pushing off my chest, she points a finger between myself and her “...attraction I don’t understand and can’t help. My life is complicated enough as is, and all I need is time to assimilate you, Giannis, and the meathead you have lingering around like a guard.”
The teasing tone and sassy grin on her makes me chuckle. “Caught on to that, did you?”
“Hard not to.” Aliana snorts, then rolls her eyes. “The guy is a fridge.”
“So dramatic.”
“So is avoiding an admittance,” she counters, and I roll us over, my body pinning hers to the mattress. “Hey! No fair.”
Running my nose against hers, I nip her top lip. “I’ll give you time, Venus, but he stays. I’ll be gone a little bit, but I need eyes and ears here to make sure you’re okay. That’s not up for negotiation.”
“You’re being extra.” Even her huff is cute. “We just met, and a security detail should come after a three-month relationship, not the first weekend.”
Not a no. Not denying that we are more than a passing hookup.
“Three days was my limit.” I run the pad of my fingers down her side and to the edge of her tights, slipping a finger beneath the waist to feel the warmth of her skin there. “I need you safe. My world is dangerous, sweetheart, and I can’t take chances where you’re concerned.”
“Part time.” Voice low. A bit husky. “Actually, more like a trial basis, and I choose the events he’s allowed to come to.”
“Full time, and you don’t complain.”
“Three times a week, and I’ll FaceTime you on the other days to give you a day-by-day breakdown. It’ll be boring, I must warn you. I’m not that interesting between work and school.” She arches her back, pressing her chest against my mouth. Goose bumps rise across her skin and her thighs cradle mine, my trouser-covered-cock against her yoga-pant-covered heat. “I’ll even throw in the occasional picture.”
“Naughty?” I growl, flexing against her once. The thin lace bralette she’s wearing is black and covers nothing. Her nipples are hard, her flesh spilling out. “Are you trying to bribe me, Miss Rubens?”
“It can be if you agree to my terms.” Her attempt at distracting me is charming, but all it does is make me want her even more. To be around every second of her day.
“Love, I was going to demand that either way.” I lick a path from one pebbled tip to the other, lightly biting on the right one. “I’ll give you time, but my sanity needs this. Agree.”
