Page 71 of The Obedient Lie
I blinked.
It shouldn’t have startled me.But it did.The intimacy of it. The casual possession. The way he held my gaze as he chewed, like he’d done something far more personal than steal a bite of food.
“You said I should eat,” he said quietly, licking his bottom lip. “So I did.”
My breath caught. I didn’t move.Couldn’t.
He let go of my wrist, just as slowly as it had taken it.
I looked down at the slice, the tiny crescent his teeth had left in the crust. For a stupid second, I didn’t know whether to keep eating or throw the whole thing away.
My pulse was everywhere—my ears, my throat, between my thighs.
“She’s blushing.” Bastion’s voice broke the silence, low and amused.
I looked up sharply.
“I am not,” I lied.
Luca smirked, leaning back on one hand. “You kind of are.”
“You’re both idiots,” I muttered, setting the pizza slice down, ignoring how shaky my fingers had become.
Bastion moved before I could think.
He reached out, and with a slow, deliberate motion, brushed his thumb across my bottom lip—catching the faint smear of sauce I hadn’t realized was there.
But he didn’t pull away.
He held his thumb there.Right at my mouth.Hovering like it belonged between my lips. Like he wanted it there.
The look in his eyes made my breath stall. That silent command.No words.Just heat and dominance and something else beneath it—something possessive, dangerous.
I didn’t even think.
I just opened my mouth.
Took his thumb in.
My lips wrapped around it.Warm. Obedient.
And for a second, neither of us moved.
His eyes darkened. His jaw flexed. My tongue grazed the pad of his thumb without meaning to and I felt a flicker of something primal pass through him.
Then he pulled it out slowly. Wet. Glinting in the low light.
“Good girl,” he murmured, so low I almost didn’t hear it.
But Ifeltit.Deep in my spine.In the place between my thighs that had no business reacting the way it did.
I swallowed hard.
Luca didn’t say a word. But I could feel his gaze like heat on the side of my face.
Bastion leaned back like nothing had happened.
Like I hadn’t just let him put his thumb in my mouth in front of his brother.
