Page 57 of Fixation

“Sure, I’m good with whatever you decide,” he smiled. “But are they both okay with this?”

“Su Min is happy to leave, and Laila…” She shrugged.

He smirked. “What about her?”

His naughty smirk said it all. He knew. Fuck. Was she the only one oblivious to things happening around her?

“You’re too smart to not have noticed that she has a thing for you,” Reina said.

“Does she now?” he drawled.

“Yes.”

“So, you’re letting her go because she has a thing for me. Hmm. Interesting.”

Reina glared at him. “It really isn’t.”

“I find the fact that you are jealous over another woman having a thing for me rather interesting.”

“I am not jealous.”

“Then let her stay. Send Stefan.”

The thought of Laila staying and continuing to hit on Vedant was unacceptable. Vedant was hers. Only hers. She stilled.

Vedant and she hadn’t spoken of the future. They were living in the moment. But considering the wave of possessiveness filling her, it seemed that her heart had already decided that it wanted more from him. That it had already claimed him as hers.

Her lungs loosened. Yes, she could do more with him. If she’d trusted him this far, then she could take the plunge and perhaps soar with him. Gaining confidence from that assurance, she moved into him and wrapped her arms around him. His hands settled around her waist. His eyes sparked as they met hers.

“Laila is leaving today,” she said.

“Why?” Vedant’s hands drifted under the hem of her t-shirt, and he caressed her bare skin. And just like that, desire raged inside her. She needed him, right now.

She pushed closer to him, her chest plastering against his. “Because I don’t like her around you. I don’t like the way she looks at you.”

“Why?” His hands drifted lower down the waistband of her tights. A shiver rolled through her. His hand moved closer and closer to her core, exactly where she needed him. Her eyes drifted closed, and then they popped open as he stilled. She found him watching her.

“Tell me why,” he asked.

“Becauseyouaremine,” she finally said.

“Is that right?”

“Yes, now give me what I want.”

“I know what you want,krasavitsa!” he chuckled, removing his hands from her body. “But I have a meeting right now. Raincheck?”

Fuck, her body was aflame, and he was leaving her unfulfilled? She put her nose on the side of his throat, inhaling his strong scent.

He groaned. “Reina, I can’t. I really have a meeting.”

She bit the side of his neck. He gasped, his hands sinking in her hair exactly as she’d expected. She stayed on his neck for a moment, biting, licking, sucking. Suddenly, she stepped back. “Okay, I’ll see you later.”

He shot to his feet and tugged her to him, fisting his hands in her hair. His hard erection pressed into the vee of her legs, making her body ache and her heart thunder.

“You have a meeting, remember?” She patted his cheek. “Raincheck?”

He growled, the sound from low in his chest. “Fuck the meeting. You’remine. Never forget that.”

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