Page 139 of Forbidden Heroes

For a moment she does nothing but stare at me, but I see the hunger in her eyes. The way she licks her lower lip and nibbles on the plump flesh tells me her thoughts are just as dirty and wrong as mine.

“What can I say, angel? I like your touch.”

She takes blushing to a whole new level as her face turns red.

“There’s not a man on this planet that wouldn’t be affected by your beauty, sweetheart.” I don’t know how long I hold her gaze. Her body shivers and her eyes slip closed for a moment before speaking.

She turns from me, breaking whatever dark arts or voodoo has a hold of my sense and sanity. I can’t remember the last time I ever felt so drawn to another human being. Never is more like it.

“Mr. Savage,” she continues as if she didn’t catch me with a massive hard-on, albeit her voice quivers. “I’m telling you this because you asked. If rumors are to be believed, you’re a vicious animal and no better than a criminal.” Her emerald gaze pierces my heart as she turns away from the book and looks into my eyes.

Fuck me, that one look has the power to drive me to my knees.

I cross my arms over my massive chest and peer down at her as she continues. That or I won’t be keeping my hands to myself much longer.

“You’re bloodthirsty, a ruthless jackal in the boardroom, cutthroat when in contract mode and… a greedy son-of-a-bitch that needs to be shown a lesson.” She throws up air quotes around that last part.

The last word comes out no more than a whisper. “Not my words.”

“Greedy,” I repeat, the word heavy on my lips.

She cocks her head to the side with a small smile on her lips. Faint as it was she still smiled and right then I swore I would do anything in the world within my power and then some to see all the evil erased from her life.

“You don’t deny the other rumors?” No judging in her tone, just curiosity.

“Not when they are the truth. Except the taught a lesson part. That’s horse shit, but I appreciate your honesty,” I answer with just as much honesty.

She deserves that much from me and more. “I fight for what is mine and for what I want.” I don’t let her look away from me when she tries to step out of my reach. I anchor her to the spot with a hand on her shoulder and another under her chin, tilting her gaze toward mine.

“Ask me if I always get what I want, Allison Shade.”

Her throat works a couple of times before she complies. “Do you, Mr. Savage. Do you always get what you want?”

“Every. Fucking. Time,” I growl, and I know she understands my meaning. Despite her age, her wisdom is beyond that of her young years.

“Good to know,” she says in a soft voice just above a whisper. The sound of her breath hitching is almost too much as the tiny sound sends a rush of blood to my already aching cock.

I take a step back or risk throwing her over my shoulder and whisking her off to one of my towers like the caveman I’ve become in the short time being around her.

“You still haven’t told me why you’re here and not your uncle.”

“Because I don’t have an honest answer.”

Her play on words makes me smile.

Heat blooms across her cheeks and her lip slips between her teeth again.

A whimper falls from her pouty lips as I pull the wet plumpness of her lip from her self-torture and this time I don’t hold back. I glide my thumb between her lips.

“Suck it, angel, like you would my cock.”

Holding my gaze, she wraps her lips around my thumb and hollows her cheeks as I pull it out.

“Just as I thought. Pure sweetness.” I taste the peppermint she must have eaten from one of the several candy dishes O’ Bryan keeps around the house during this time of year as I lick her taste from my skin.

I catch her wrist when she reaches out to touch me. Tremors rock through her, and I didn’t miss the moan she tries to hide behind a gasp of surprise. “You’re in over your head, angel. Run along home before you get fucked under my Christmas tree.”

I raise her wrist to my lips and press a chaste kiss to her hammering pulse.

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