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"They all sound like a bunch of assholes." Enzo frowned and put down his drink. "You are beautiful, but to be honest, it's not your most appealing quality, nor is it what I'm the most drawn to."

Eris unclenched her napkin. "It's not? Then what is? Because my personality isn't exactly sparkling."

"Another reason I like you." Enzo turned to face her properly. "You understand pain and darkness. You've seen and experienced more of it than any creature should have to bear, and despite that, you're still nervous about being around people because you're worried your curse might kill them. You don't judge me because I killed my ex-wife. When you look at me, you see more than just a bartender and a failed shrink. You see people for what they are, Eris, not just for what they look like or present to the world. You're not a fucking monster. You are a force of nature. Being around you makes me feel more alive thanI have in the last decade." Enzo stopped his passionate rant and took a breath. "I want your curse to be lifted to free you from it, but I wouldn't change a thing about you. Claws and fangs and chaos and social anxiety…I want all of it."

Eris drained her Spritz and tried to find the right way to respond to everything she was feeling. It felt like chaos but so very different. It was bubbling inside of her but bigger than she thought she could possibly contain.

Eris got up, moved to his side, and cupped his cheeks with her hands. With a gentleness she wouldn't have thought herself capable of, she kissed him once. "I want you to come downstairs with me."

"Is it to smite me for my audacity where people won't see?" Enzo asked a gleam of mischief in his eyes.

"No, it's so I show you I want you back in the best way I know how," Eris replied and kissed him slowly again. She whispered against his lips, "Please come with me."

Enzo stroked her arm. "Well, I did make you a promise if you did your best not to tease me today."

Eris bit him on his bottom lip. "Yes, you did."

"Then lead the way, goddess," Enzo replied.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Eris's belly fluttered with anticipation as she walked below deck with Enzo. She turned in the narrow space. "Your cabin or mine?"

"Yours," he said quickly. He looked a bit sheepish as he added, "The palladium is in mine, and it's too sentient for me not to feel weird about her watching."

Eris laughed and wrapped her hands around his neck. "That's so adorable. Good to know you don't have a voyeuristic streak."

Enzo gripped her ass and squeezed. "I'm not willing to share any part of you with anyone else," he said, pressing her up against the cabin door and kissing her.

"Good, because I feel the same," Eris replied and tugged his shirt off over his head. Her fingers trailed over his scars and chest hair, and just knowing she could touch him the way she wanted made her pussy wet. Enzo deepened their kiss and dragged one of her legs up around his hips. He let out a throaty chuckle when he found her bare under her maxi dress.

"I love your aversion to underwear when it's hot," he said, brushing his fingers over her pussy. Eris's nails dug into his pecs and ground up against his hand. "Fuck, baby, you are so wet."

"Take me to bed or take me here. I don't care. Just don't stop," she panted against his lips.

"Open the door then, goddess." Enzo dragged his stubble down her throat as his thick fingers toyed with her. "I made you a promise, and I want your cunt on my face before I fuck you senseless."

Fuck.Eris fumbled for the door handle, opening it and dragging him inside in one move. She pushed him back onto the bed, and they both stripped, laughing as they did. She couldn't remember ever laughing with a lover during sex before, but she couldn't hide her enthusiasm for the sexy, buff man stretched out on her sheets.

"You are so gorgeous," she said, with a slight shake of her head like she couldn't believe so much deliciousness lived under his clothes. She wanted to lick him all over.

Eris must have said it out loud because Enzo only grabbed her, lifted her on top of him, and said, "You first," before dragging her pussy down onto his face.

Eris reached her hands up to grab the headboard. Sexy as hell and loved to eat pussy, how did she get so lucky? He sucked hard on her clit, making her jump at the little electric shocks that it sent through her. Enzo's big, rough hands squeezed her soft ass, and she groaned. His tongue moved down to fuck into her, and lights danced through her vision.

"Fuck, Enzo. Don't stop," she gasped and ground her pussy against him.

He took her lead and doubled down on making her lose her damn mind. He moved his fingers up to spread her wider and brushed small circles around her clit, his tongue never stopping. Eris's thighs were already shaking, and she wanted to hold out longer, but with another deep tonguing, she was coming undone. She couldn't catch her full breath before he was scraping his beard over her clit and sending her orgasm to a whole newlevel. She clung to the headboard, trying and failing to stop the tremors running through her as she did exactly what he had promised and soaked him with her come.

Enzo let out a soft chuckle and kissed the wetness smeared down her inner thigh. "Still with me, baby?"

"Pretty smug for a man who is about to be fucked senseless," Eris said, her voice still shaky.

He made a sound of protest when she began to slide down his body. "I wasn't done with that."

"I need you in me," Eris replied, his chest hair tickling her thighs as she moved to straddle him. His lips caught hers, and she could taste herself all over him. It felt filthy, and it just made her hornier. Her pussy clenched, and the emptiness almost hurt.

"Should we get Laverna's present?" Enzo joked.

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