“You just can’t help yourself, can you?” My words were quiet but I knew he heard them, because he immediately looked away from me.
“I’m not going to apologize.”
“No, of course not. Why would you?”
Dimitri took in a deep breath and then let it out as he placed the clock on the table. “Look, you did something nice for me, and I appreciate that?—”
“Doyou?” I shouted much louder than I meant to. “Because to me it sounds like you’re an ungrateful bastard who’s still holding a grudge.”
“Agrudge? Do you know what I’d usually do with someone who did what you did?”
“It’s not hard to guess, since you aimed a gun at my head. But I thought we were past all that.”
Dimitri moved in close to me, his eyes blazing. “Past it?”
“Oui.Isn’t that why you brought me here? Why you demanded to keep me like some kind of prisoner until our time was over?”
“You think I’m keeping you like a prisoner?” Dimitri grabbed my wrists and hauled me up against his chest. “If I was holding you prisoner, you’d be tied in some basement with a lock on it. Not standing in my home driving me fucking crazy.”
“Then why am I here? It’s obvious you don’t want me anymore?—”
“Then you aren’t looking close enough. All Idois want you. When I wake up, when I eat, when I fucking sleep. I neverstoppedwanting you.” He shook his head. “And another thing I can’t seem to stop is wondering whether or not I’m just a job to you.”
My pulse thumped hard and fast under his fingers. “You already know the answer to that. You’re just too stubborn to admit it.”
He swallowed, and it took everything I had not to lean in and lick a path over that strong throat.
“There’s no way this can work. No way you and I will ever work.”
“Not even for a moment?” I said, and licked my lips. “Not even for right now?”
Dimitri’s chest heaved against mine, and just when I thought he’d push me away and leave me wanting, he grabbed the back of my neck and stole the moment for the both of us.
31
DIMITRI
FUCK, IT WASN’T just that I wanted Benoit—I needed him. I couldn’t even deny it to myself anymore, and the second I touched him, he knew it too.
I’d meant what I said. I didn’t see a way the two of us could be together, but every one of those thoughts flew out of my head the moment my mouth was on his.
He reached for me, threading his fingers through my hair, his tongue eager to tangle with mine. I hauled him into my arms, never breaking our connection, and he wrapped his legs tight around my waist. With every step I took, his growing erection rubbed up against mine, and fuck, I needed to get us somewhere, and fast.
When my foot smacked against the edge of the couch, sending us stumbling into it, that was enough of a sign for me. My knee hit the cushion and I lowered Benoit down onto it.
Then the frenzy began.
His mouth left mine briefly as we tore off our shirts and shoved our pants down, impatient to finally take what we’d both been missing. I couldn’t get mine off fast enough, so I stood up and kicked them off, and saw Benoit’s pants still wrappedaround his ankles. I reached for them, and with one yank they were gone, tossed into the pile along with mine.
“You are…” Benoit licked his lips, already breathless as his gaze ran down my body before returning to my face. “…the sexiest man I’ve ever seen.Mon monstre.”
He punctuated that by reaching down to stroke himself, and he was already so hard and flushed that I knew it couldn’t be a lie. He really was as turned on by me as I was by him.
I grabbed a bottle of lube from a drawer nearby and drenched my dick with it. I’d usually want to edge him for a while, make him so crazy for me that he’d be begging for me to fill his ass, but foreplay wasn’t in the cards right now. I needed inside him more than I’d needed anything.
“On your back,” I said roughly.
He didn’t hesitate to follow my order, nor did he take his eyes off my fist around my cock.
