Page 17 of Her Dragon Daddy Disaster
He fully turned to face me now, the force of his gaze boring down on me, reminding me of why I’d let him take me to bed any time he wanted in the past. The man wasintensein the absolute best way possible when he turned it on. Like he was now.
“Of course I thought you would be happy,” he growled in a delicious baritone that should’ve awoken things in me. I’m sure he expected it would. “I can feel your heart when I get closer. The way it beats faster. I can see you breathe harder. I smell your pheromones, and your arousal when you think of the things I used to do to you. The way you would obey my every command. That’s still in there. You can’t hide it from me, Sarah.”
Despite my utmost self-control, honed by years of training for my job, I couldn’t stop the shiver of pleasure that went racing down my spine at the sound of him using my name.
But I had an easy way out of that. All I did was picture Jakub’s face as he came rushing out of the house after me, tears in his eyes, promising to be good. As if my leaving was because of something he’d done.
“Any sexual attraction I may or may not feel toward you ismorethan canceled out by the fact it’s beensix years!” I shouted in his face. “You walked out on me, you moron. Without a word. Without a note. Nothing. Just disappeared. Casting me aside like I was a toy to be discarded. Then, you come back around, waltzing into my life like a few hours had passed, and not half a decade and change.”
Levi opened his mouth, but I cut him off with a savage chop of my hand that made him retreat a step.
“I. Am. Not.Done!” That time, I shrieked. I didn’t care. “Then, you proceed toruinmy life, by forcing me to leave everythingand everyone I care about, all because you want to stick your junk between my legs some more. You don’t stop to consider me or my feelings or wants. All you do is think of yourself! Why on Earth would I be happy about any ofthat? Huh? Tell me, Levi, please, because maybe I’m missing something. Am I?”
Tears were building in the corners of my eyes, but I blinked them away, letting anger replace sadness, burning away the liquid as heat built in my chest like a furnace rising to temperature.
“I didn’t mean to,” Levi said, pulling himself fully erect. I desperately tried not to notice the way the change in posture stretched his shirt across his broad chest and shoulders, emphasizing each muscular curve and bulge.
It was that fitness of self, along with his good looks and the absolute intensity of his personality that had melted any resistance I’d had years ago. As long as I wasn’t working, he could have had me anytime, anywhere that he wanted. And he had. Not that I didn’t get what I wanted out of it either. After a day of being always on alert, focused, and under orders, it was beyond freeing to be at someone else’s command. To be told what to do, and then be pleasured for obeying.
And if there was one thing Levi was good at, it had been pleasuring my body. Hands, mouth, thick, hard cock. They had all pleasured me. Orgasm after orgasm.
I’d dated a few men since, but nothing serious, nothing that stuck. How could they after him? Nothing compared to Levi. Not even my vibrator.
“You didn’t mean to?” I barked with harsh laughter, yanking my mind back to the present and out of fantasy land. I lived in reality, where sex with him was in the past. “You’re joking, right? You didn’tmeanto tell the president that the only way the war ended was with me coming here? Me specifically, not anyoneelse, they could volunteer. But no, you had to force me against my will.”
“Not that,” he said, refusing to respond to any of my points. “I meant five years and eight months ago.”
I frowned. He had the timing down to the month? “What do you mean?”
“Walking out on you wasn’t what I wanted to do. To leave.”
Anyone else would have continued on, explained just what they meant by such a comment. Apparently not Levi.
“Please, do go on,” I encouraged sarcastically. “I’d love to know why, since you didn’t seem to be able to tell me then.”
He blinked and gestured around him, as if that was all the answer I should need. “I had to come back here,” he said.
“Okay,” I said, speaking slowly so he had time to do something absolutely wild, such as expand on that statement. He didn’t. “And did that need to return somehow rob you of the ability to write a note? Make a phone call?Tell me to my face you had to leave for some reason?Have you ever heard of the word ‘goodbye,’ Levi?”
Anger flared in his eyes. I didn’t care. Good. It was good if he got upset. Maybe then he would start explaining himself better.
“What do you expect of me?” he growled. “I couldn’t tell you that I had to return to the dragon homeland. Seriously, come on now.”
“Of course not!” I shouted. “But you could have lied. Come up with any number of reasons. Simply told me you were moving on.Anythingwould have been better than just disappearing.”
“I thought it would be easier that way.”
“Oh, I’m sure it was. For you,” I said coldly. “You took the coward’s way out.”
Thatgot a reaction. Levi’s temper flared, his hands closing into fists so tightly tendons creaked.
“Oh, get off your high horse,” I snapped. “You weren’t the one left for nearly six years thinking you’d screwed up or done something wrong. You knew the truth, so you could sleep at night. But you never considered me. Never thought of me.”
“That’s not true,” he said in a much softer tone.
“What isn’t?”
“I thought of you. All the time. Couldn’t get you off my mind, if I’m being honest. That’s why I was so happy to see you again.”
