Page 39 of Wild Ace

“I told him that I mentioned all the improvements I wanted to do to the deli to you in passing to cover the fact that based on your need to rile me up, he believed you were insulting him and calling his life’s work and livelihood a piece of shit that needed an overhaul.”

“Fuck,” I mutter. “That’s not what I intended at all.”

“I know. That’s why I lied to him.”

“I’m sorry you had to do that,” I tell her sincerely.

“Thank you.”

“Is there anything I can do to make it up to you?” Straightening, I stand in front of her and tilt her chin up with my finger.

“Maybe,” she whispers, swallowing hard.

“I was thinking…” I trail off, leaning closer. “I’d start with this.”

Lexi’s gravity pulls me in and I press my lips to hers.

It takes everything in me to hold back and not kiss her until she’s a panting, pleading, and needy mess straight away.

It isn’t until she grabs the opening of my shirt to pull me closer that I give her more. And knowing she wants more, and it’s not just me, turns me on more than if I just took from her what I know we both want.

Pinching her chin, I slide my other hand into her hair and fuse my lips to hers in a kiss that has my heart racing like a fucking thoroughbred at the derby.

Every rapid beat echoes one word into every cavernous part of my body and soul.

Mine.

Pulling her up by the chin until she’s standing, I lift her up onto the metal table, and her dress clinks against the surface.

I step between her legs and pull her towards me until her core is nestled against my cock that’s straining to be free.

Everything in me is screaming to fuck her right here and now, but now’s not the time or place. I need to convince her to give me a chance. A chance for her to realize what she’s feeling isn’t a bad thing and isn’t something she needs to fight at every turn.

I’m going to push her to the edge and then stop short so she’ll be begging me to take that last step and fling us into the unknown. I have a feeling what’s over the edge is just as much a mystery to her as it is to me, and I’d greet the dark abyss with a smile.

Lexi moans into my mouth and I bite her bottom lip, making her moan even louder.

I slash my tongue over where I bit her to soothe the flash of pain, and her body melts in my hands.

Lexi scratches at the back of my head and I groan, entangling my tongue with hers. She’s a fucking drug, and the only one I have no problem overdosing on.

I wrap her hair around my fist and pull her head back, tearing her lips away from mine and biting her chin.

Lexi cries out and then moans when I kiss my way down her throat.

“Vinny,” she sighs, and my cock jumps at the rough and desperate tone of my name coming from her sweet lips.

“Yes, dolcezza?” I ask against her skin. Swiping my tongue back up her neck to her ear, I suck on her lobe and swirl my tongue around her stud earring. “Tell me what you want.”

She gasps. “I want…”

Lexi’s head falls to the side in a silent beg for more as she rubs her sweet pussy against me, trying to get herself off.

“You want my cock, dolcezza?” I rasp in her ear, and a moan gets stuck her throat. “Was that a yes?”

She rakes her nails across my shoulders, and I can’t wait to feel her do that against my bare skin. I want her to mark her territory like a goddamn animal.

“Yes.”

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