Page 91 of Devious Lies

All that tanned skin covering his long, muscled up body. His ink is superb and the way he compliments it with sexy as fuck piercings.

Shit.

Luc is a dream. An erotic, hypnotic dream of a man.

And he is all mine.

My mouth is watering for him.

“Hey—” I start, but he’s already moving towards me.

He doesn’t give me a chance to speak, he just grabs me to him in a tight hug.

His body is so hard and warm from standing in the summer afternoon heat. But he’s vibrating with emotion.

I’m confused. And a little worried. I hum deep in my throat, clinging to him, trying to soothe him.

I breathe him in, loving the spicy scent of his body wash.

He pulls back and cups my cheeks, claiming my mouth in one of his deliciously possessive kisses.

Then, he tells me what happened.

After he’s finished telling me the veiled threats Matteo made to my mother about me, Luc tells me something else.

He tells me he has to leave for a little while and my heart stutters inside my chest.

“Listen to me,” he begins.

“I told Nico about your connection to Sanchez.”

I freeze.

Oh, my God.

What must the king of the Vipers think about that?

“D-does he want me to leave town?”

“What? No! You are not going anywhere, Baby Girl,” he says, and I expel a sharp breath.

I don’t know why I panic. I guess I just figure Nico might not believe I have nothing to do with the Sanchez brothers or their sudden interest in fucking with the Vipers.

“Listen, Maria, you are mine. Hear me? You are staying with me. Now look, I am sorry, but I have to go away for a few days on business with the guys,” he says.

“Where? For how long?” I ask, and I grip his shirt in my hands.

I don’t even realize I am doing it until I feel his hands closing over mine. He kisses my head again, his steel eyes softening.

“Just for a few days. We have a business meeting in Boston. But that’s not important,” he continues. “What is important is I won’t be here, and I need you safe. You will do what I say, won’t you?”

Of course, I agree.

“I can’t have anything happen to you, Baby Girl.”

“I need you safe, too. I’ll be fine,” I tell him.

Ijust didn’t know then how bored I would be.

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