“You have the most beautifulsmile.”
“Thankyou.”
“And she finally accepts a compliment.” He chuckles, and I playfully nudge him in theribs.
“You’re anass.”
“Then she insultsme.”
The lights of the city reflect off the river, dancing over his face and chest. I study him, growing all too aware that I’m tripping over a delicate line. He’s a risk. The epitome of what I usually avoid, and I’m starting to figure out why. He’s intoxicating. Every hour I spend with him, each kiss, complicates things. It threatens to involve my heart in something that will prove to be fatal. I shouldn’t do this to myself, but as aware as I am, I’m not foolish enough to believe I’ll stop seeing him until I’m forcedto.
He takes a seat, then grabs my hips, his thumbs skimming the waist of my jeans as he stares at me. I need to be closer to him, touching him, so I slowly lower myself onto his lap, straddling him so we’re face toface.
I grab his face and kiss him while his hands slide up to the back of my head, tilting it so he can deepen thekiss.
Moving my palm between us, I slowly unfasten the buttons of his shirt and slip a hand inside over his hard, warm muscles. I can feel his heartbeat and his barely constrainedbreaths.
A need builds between my legs, wanton and insatiable. I can’t possibly get close enough to this man. I shift on his lap, feeling his length and fantasizing about how it will feel inside me, deep and buried while he fists my hair. My mind races with the possibilities, winding me tighter and tighter until I can’t help but timidly grind against him, seeking release. Elijah’s hips lift. His erection presses against me. The simple friction is getting me tooclose.
“Do you feel what you do to me?” He breathes between hair tugs and desperatekisses.
“Yes.” I grab his wrist, shoving his hand beneath the waist of my jeans. “Do you feel what you do tome?”
His fingers dip down, touching me. His head falls against my shoulder, and he buries his face in the crook of my neck with a deep groan. One that causes my hips to roll over him with moreintent.
“So wet, sweetDemi.”
He plays with me long enough that my breathing grows ragged, and then he pulls his hand away. His eyes lock on my mouth while he traces his wet fingertip over my bottom lip. When I suck on his finger, he smiles. “Such a good girl,” hesays.
“I thought I was supposed to be a bad girl with you?” I nip at his ear, and his fingers twitch over myhips.
“I could fuck you right here,” he threatens, .and I wish hewould.
All I can feel is his hard length underneath me, his warm breaths fanning across mythroat.
He toys with the button to my jeans, and I wait with baited breath for his nextmove.
He grabs my ass, lifting me with him when he stands. My feet touch the ground, and he takes my hand, starting across the park toward hisbuilding.
The doorman doesn’t offer his usual warm greeting when we step to the entrance but instead provides a wide breadth as we head inside and straight to theelevators.
When the doors open, Elijah yanks me inside and pins me to the wall. His fingers dig into my jaw before stroking my throat in an act of possession. “You drive me crazy,” he breathes against mylips.
The tension presses in from all sides like an ever-shrinking box, and I’m just waiting for it to crush me. Any second I expect him to rip off my clothes and fuck me. And it feels like I need that just as much as my nextbreath.
Fifth floor. Sixthfloor.
Elijah rakes his teeth over my lip. My skin flushes withheat.
Seventhfloor. Eighthfloor. Ninth floor.Tenth.
Each second seems drawn out. By the time the elevator pings open, my clothes are constricting, and I’m near the point of tearing them offmyself.
He blows a hard breath through his nose before he steps away. I follow him down the hall and inside his apartment, my heart banging in anticipation. The second the door closes, he grabs me and lifts me in a desperate bid to be closer. My thighs wrap carelessly around his broad hips as he carries me toward thewindow.
“Fuck, I need you,” he says, trapping me between the cold glass and his hard body. He bites my lip. Hard. Then claims my mouth with a savagekiss.
“Then takeme.”
