Page 57 of The Dragon's Warlock

She took a step back. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Alida said you were sick.”

Before she could turn to Alida, the girl ran out of the room, and Lucy laughed. “Well, I’m going to leave you two alone.”

The man still looked sexy as hell. His hair was longer. His eyes didn’t sparkle as much as they had.

“I’m fine, Gideon. Go.”

Her stupid dragon used that moment to come back to life. She wanted to pin Gideon down and strip him naked. But the human side still had control, so she stood with her arms crossed and waited for him to leave.

His lip ticked up, and he folded his arms. “I’m not leaving. We need to talk.”

“There was plenty of time to talk over the last month, and you chose not to come talk to me.” The words came out clipped.

“I had things to work out.”

“We were supposed to be a team and work things out together.”

“We are a team.” He sighed. “But one of the things I needed to do on my own, I just finished, and I was getting ready to come here when Alida showed up. You can ask Kirin or Kia. They both knew I was coming over today.”

It hurt that he’d been talking to them and not her. Gideon hadn’t even picked up the phone to call her over the last month to see if she was okay.

“You can’t just walk back into my life after ignoring me for a month. Even if you had something to work out, you could’ve called, emailed, or even sent a text. But instead, I got radio silence, and I needed you. Things have been difficult, and the one person I needed wasn’t there for me.”

Gideon stepped across the room and ran his thumb over her cheek, wiping the tear away. “What I was doing took longer than I expected. If I’d called and heard your voice, I wouldn’t have been able to stay away. And what I was doing was for you.”

“I missed you so much,” she said.

With his fingers on her and him being so close, the anger started to drift away. She wanted him to wrap his arms around her and make the world disappear.

“It killed me to be away from you. Hell, I made Kia steal your pillow one night, so I could smell your shampoo. Do you know what kind of favor I’m going to owe the dragon now? There are things I need to tell you, and if you still want me, afterward, I want to take you home, and we will bond.”

She didn’t need to hear the things he’d done in the past. “I don’t want to wait.”

“There are things you need to know.”

She held her hand to his face. “No, there aren’t, Gideon. I love you, and that is all that matters.”

His eyes flashed dark emerald green. “You love me?”

“Yes, you silly warlock, and if you’d talked to me days ago, you would already know that.”

He pressed his lips to hers. The kiss was demanding and full of need. “I love you, too, my angel,” Gideon whispered against her lips.

“I need you, Gideon.”

He tore her tank top over her head. Gideon kissed his way down her neck, and when he got to her nipple, he captured it in his lips. His other hand pressed between her legs. The second his finger skimmed her clit, fire coursed through her body.

“You’re already wet and needy for me.”

“Please… Gideon.”

When he took his hand away and got off the bed, she let out a whimper. He quickly discarded his jeans. Her mouth watered at the sight of his hard cock.

He climbed back onto the bed, and before he could work his way down her body, she tightened her grip. “I need you now, Gideon.”

His eyes searched hers for a split second before he pushed in and she wrapped her legs around him. She met his thrusts, and when she placed her face in the crook of his neck, she couldn’t help but run her teeth along his shoulder.

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