Did she want him to kiss her? Did he want to kiss her?
Fuck yes. But as he reached for her, to grasp the back of her neck and draw her into him, she moved.
“Oh no! I’m . . . I’m . . .”
Maya was panicking. Which was not the reaction he was hoping for.
She scrambled off his lap, but in her rush she managed to get her leg between his. And when she attempted to climb off him, her knee slammed into his balls.
A groan of pain escaped him.
“Oh my God!” she cried as she stood next to the sofa as he lay down. “Oh my God! I’m so sorry! I can’t believe I did that. Are you all right? Of course you’re not all right. You’re rolling around in clear pain and your face has gone all pale and I need to do something! But what? Oh, ice. I will get ice.” Turning, she raced away before he could call her back.
He pushed through the pain, ignoring it as best he could. She really had managed to get him good. Matthieu sat up as she returned holding a bag filled with ice.
“Here you are. Oh, let me.” She kneeled between his open legs and put the bag directly on his dick.
Holy shit.
If it wasn’t for the pain in his balls and the ice on his cock, he might have gotten turned on by this scenario.
“How is that?” She glanced up at him.
And then her face went bright red. He’d seriously never seen someone’s face grow that red. She was like a bright, shiny apple.
Maya scrambled to her feet and he automatically reached down to protect his balls. But thankfully all she did was step back.
“I think it’s time I went to bed,” she said.
“Maya,” he said, not liking the way her shoulders were slumped. “Everything is fine, Spitfire. We’re fine.”
“Sure. Uh-huh. Of course we are. I’m just tired. That’s all. Good night.”
“Maya, no, wait!”
But she’d fled into her bedroom and shut the door.
Merde.
He debated whether to follow her, but decided that he’d wait until morning.
That really could have gone better.
27
Idiot. Idiot. Idiot.
What had she been thinking? She’d been sitting in his lap . . . and had he been about to kiss her?
He had, hadn’t he?
She hadn’t imagined that, had she?
The sexiest man alive had been about to kiss her.
And what did you do?
Knee him in the balls.
