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Her eyelids fluttered closed, and a small, tortured sound escaped her lips.
“Do you want me?”
“What would either of us know about it?” she whispered.
He chuckled. Finally, she was saying what was on her mind rather than holding back.
“I know that what I wish is to kiss you until you are begging for more. I know that I should take it slowly, teasing your nipples over your clothes, putting my hand between your thighs and stroking. Touch you until you are arching against me, until you are asking for more. And only then should I give it to you. Or maybe not. Maybe I should keep it back. Keep more to myself, until you are willing tobeg. Then, and only then, will I begin to kiss you down your neck, reveal your body slowly to my gaze, expose your breasts. So that I can taste them. I crave that. Your skin. The sensation of sucking your nipples deep into my mouth. And then, I would kiss my way down your body. You have the most beautiful body. The sight of you in that bikini nearly sent me to hell. Or heaven. I’m not certain which it is. I would kiss my way down your soft stomach. Part your legs. And I have no shame, as you know. So I would look my fill until you turned bright red. Until you were begging for me to either let you close your legs and walk away, or feast upon you. And then... I would not. I wouldn’t do either, because when I take you, Brianna, you will surrender your control to me. You will trust that I will listen to the cues of your body and give you the pleasure that you want. That you need. You have had any number of years to find the keys to your own desire. But when I have you like that, willing, beneath me, you will surrender to my will. I will kiss your thigh. I will not touch my tongue to that bundle of nerves that’s crying out for my attention. I will make you quiver. Press a kiss low to your stomach, until you are begging me, and only then will I please us both by allowing myself a taste of your honey.”
“Riyaz,” she said, her voice trembling.
“Do you not wish to hear more?”
“It’s a little bit like reading ahead in a book, isn’t it?” she whispered.
Yes. She was seduced. He was certain of that. She had not said no.
She was choosing this. Him. She was choosing him.
And the need between them. The short moment of joy that they might find in one another’s arms.
“No spoilers?” he asked.
“Where did you even hear that?”
“I read it.”
She shook her head. “You are astonishing.”
“Thank you. But I haven’t even touched you yet.”
“Riyaz... Kiss me. Please.”
And he did not need to be asked twice.
He lowered his head, and Brianna bracketed his face with her palms. Felt the roughness of his whiskers against her skin.
And she wanted to weep.
And then his mouth was on hers, over hers. And it was... It was all that she could have ever fantasized about and more.
She didn’t know what would happen after this. He was marrying another woman. And even if he weren’t, he was the heir to the throne of this desert kingdom, and that had nothing to do with that sitcom family life that she wanted.
And they were... They could never be together. Not really. His reference point for everything was books. Hers TV. They were pretend people, playing the part of being real. But not with each other.
They had found honesty,realhonesty here. And she wanted it. More than anything. And maybe this was the gift. Just the moment. And whatever happened after didn’t actually matter.
Maybe the gift was these few days, weeks, however long it was, of honesty.
He was the first person that she really felt like might understand her. And she had never thought she needed that. But she had put on a mask and a veneer from the moment that she had left her father’s compound, and she had operated in the world with that mask. She had taught other people to do the same. She was teaching him to do it now, and for the first time, she felt some misgivings about that.
Maybe the problem with sitcoms was they were all on a set. Was that they were inherentlynotreal.
And neither was she.
Except right now, she felt real. His lips parted, and his tongue swept deep into her mouth. She was shocked by the precision and skill present in that kiss. The way that he called need up from within her body without even trying.
He was a quick study, was Riyaz. And apparently, very good at getting information just by reading.
