Page 12 of Vows in Sin
We should not be kissing. Yet, here we are.
He works his way under the gusset of my panties. He slides one finger inside me, then a second, and I cry out, my breasts pressing against his chest as I kiss him back with hungry need.
Our moment shatters when his phone explodes in his pocket.
It’s strange—hearing something as ordinary as a phone ring—during such an unexpected tangle between strangers.
We break apart, breathless, sweat-slicked.
“Do you need to get that?” I whisper, eyes heavy-lidded, body still aching with want.
His jaw tightens. He pulls the phone free. Shame flickers across his face, telling me…
He’s as exposed as I feel.
“I need to return this call,” he says, voice clipped. “I’ll walk you out.”
My heart twists as I nod. “Okay.”
And just like that…it’s over?
I move in a dreamlike state, half wondering if I imagined the entire thing. I can feel the heat, power, and whatever energy exists between us as he walks beside me, reminding me that the whole encounter was very real.
He gestures for me to go ahead, unlocking the door. “I’ll have someone drive you home.”
“I can call a cab,” I offer, the fight in me flickering. I rearrange my clothing. Pretend this didn’t just happen.
“It’s late. You’ll go with one of my men.” His gaze pins me until I relent.
“Fine.”
He leads me down the hall to the staffroom. He waves away the smoke from Sideburns’s cigarette. “Put that out,” he tells him. Then to another, “Budgie. I need you to give this young lady a ride home.”
I avert my eyes as he speaks to Budgie, a man with a large, friendly face and a parrot tattoo climbing to his brow.
Reign clears his throat, unsure how to address me now. Or if he even should.
I don’t give him the power to make that decision. I don’t wait for a goodbye. I turn the other way.
His bootsteps fade down the corridor, and I’m left with the faint scent of cloves lingering on my skin.
5
Seraphina
My fingers brush over my lips. How is it that they still tingle this morning?
I couldn’t sleep last night. I lay there, too wound up, too busy feeling all the feelings. My body was alive, wanting to relive every moment.
Last night, a man twice my age fueled daddy issues I didn’t know I had.
Turned me on to kink I didn’t know I needed.
And made me forget that I have a huge meeting this morning.
So, what happened in that office last night is being packed away neatly and tidily in a box in the back of my mind, along with Dame and Reign to be sorted out at a later date over wine with Tabitha.
Right now?
