Lux’s body tenses just as she falls flat on top of my desk, sending the pile of documents floating to the floor.
“Show me how well you cum for me.” I rest a hand on her lower back.
“Oh, River,” she moans.
While her body trembles underneath my grip, I continue to pump a few more times until she pants with a pleasure riding her orgasm. I come shortly after and continue pushing in and out of her until we’re both spent.
Throbbing with pleasure, I painfully pull out. Dazed and looking sated, she flips her body around, pushing herself on to my desk. Sweat mists her forehead and her eyes are dark, feral as ever. Then her legs fly open, flashing me a full look at her swollen pussy, like a tease.
I drop to my knees in front of her. “Look at the mess we’ve made. Let me clean you up.”
“You’ve been a bad boy, River.” Lux shakes her head. “Watching me on those cameras.”
“Have I?” I bury my nose into the wetness between her legs, breathing in the scent of us.
But then, before I get a taste of us together, she inches her skirt back down, hops off my desk, and walks toward the door. With a flip of her hair, she turns to me. “This isn’t over.”
I laugh, shocked and surprised by how much she fucking amazes me. “It’s not?”
“No. But for now, I’ll let you continue watching me.” And with one last glare and a click of her tongue, she says, “I have work to do.” Then slams the door behind her, leaving me alone in my office.
For the first time in my life, I am not the one who is in charge.
Chapter 28
Lux
The feelings I have for River are growing the more time we spend together. I’m not going to deny the sheer euphoria I felt when he referred to me ashis.
His ability to be two completely different people should alarm me, but it doesn’t. And the coldness that emerges from him when he’s carrying out a kill is unsettling, although when it’s just the two of us, he’s kind and gentle. Both sides are utterly intoxicating.
With all that, I still can’t let him off the hook too easily because I’m still angry he installed cameras in my townhouse and my room here at the manor. But then why am I trying to convince myself I don’t find it thrilling? To be protected so fiercely by a man who could kill another without a second thought sends every feminine bone in my body plummeting to the floor.
What is wrong with me?
As I sit at the desk in my room at River’s house, I can’t help my eyes darting around the room every few minutes, in search of his cameras.But who am I kidding? River’s billion-dollar tech company creates devices for the government. Why would he create cameras that could be detectable?
I gave in to him this afternoon in his office, by letting him dominate. I tried to fight back, but he knows me better than I know myself, which is something I’d never experienced before.
After what happened in his office—both with the cameras and his blatant honesty about his feelings toward me—everything has changed. Because River represents something dark and steady, a power unlike anything I’ve encountered, and his obsession with me does nothing to steer me away. If anything it’s pulling me closer.
I hear a quick vibration on the desk.
Stevie: Just finishing up at work. Do you want me to come back to River and Sebastian’s house?
Stevie has knowledge of almost everything now, and if she’s willing to come back maybe she’s reconsidering staying here. When she said she was going to work this morning, I asked River to assign one of his men to her to make sure she’s safe. He chuckled and said he was already on it.
I pick up my phone and decide to call her instead. I’d rather continue to convince her over the phone than through text.
“Hey,” she says as soon as she answers. “How are you feeling today?”
Tucking my legs underneath me, I stare at the fully typed chapter in front of me that I spent the first part of the evening working on. The last thing I want to do is ask for an extension from my editor, but it’s impossible to devote the time needed to finish this story with everything that’s going on.
“I’m okay. Have you made a decision on whether to stay or not?” I ask, hoping she’s changed her mind.
“In fact, I have.”
“And?”
