Page 74 of Diamond Kisses

“Come with me,” I begged around her tongue.

No reply.

Something drove her.

Her fear matched mine.

I tasted her panic as if time was running out.

Christmas…

I didn’t know who had followed our original plan or what detonations the jewels had in place, but…if we could hold on until tomorrow. If we survived just a few more hours—

“If you’re going to come,mon ami, I suggest you do it,” Victor drawled somewhere in the ballroom. “I’ve been patient, but your reward will expire in precisely sixty seconds.”

Ily caught my eyes.

Her skin flushed as I surged upward, using my foot on the floor to drive myself deep,deepinside her.

Falling over me, she pressed my lacerated back onto the cream couch, and my system drenched with pain and pleasure. The blend of bad and good sent me straight into a fresh kind of hell.

I waited for her to speak.

To whisper something into my ear.

To say a single word.

But she kissed me again.

Giving me her tongue in silence, she stole everything I wanted to say in return.

I needed to tell her what the guard told me. What Ben had uttered. That we still had friends in the shadows, trying…

But her kiss turned vicious, and I shuddered as she bit my bottom lip, threw herself backward, and planted her hands on my belly.

I didn’t stand a goddamn chance.

With rocking, rolling, gyrating hips, she took me.

She drove me up that final mountain.

She forced me onto that cliff.

My eyes flared as heat gathered and sparks ignited, and I fought against my binds.

I needed to hug her.

This felt wrong.

Incomplete.

“Ily…wait—”

I didn’t want to come without touching her.

I didn’t want to release without her falling with me.

But she didn’t give me a choice.

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