“Itiswhat I want! That way I don’t have to sleep in your tainted, dirty, awfulslutbed—”
I sank all of my weight into her, squishing her into the cushions beneath me.
“You think I don’t know what you’re doing?” I growled, my voice firm and low. “You think I don’t understand this game you’re playing?”
The instant I snapped at her, the fight left her body. She stared at my mouth, her tits rising and falling with her breath as she waited. I lowered my face to hers, our tangled limbs loosening like a knot coming undone.
“No! Don’t!” she protested, even as she lifted her head off the couch to meet my mouth. “Don’t you dare kiss me, Derek!”
My lips touched hers like a raindrop touches the dry earth—she drank me in, all of me, in an instant. She wrapped her legs around my back and we melted into each other, sinking deeper into the couch cushions. Her insatiable lips demanded that I kiss her hotter, harder, heavier.
Between kisses, she spoke my name breathlessly.
“Derek.”
What the hell was it about kissing someone you weren’t supposed to? What made such a bad idea so goddamnhot? I didn’t know, but the crotch of my trousers quickly tightened as we traded tongues.
“Katerina,” I answered her.
Eager hands groped and grabbed as we hurriedly explored each other’s bodies. We knew what we were doing was wrong—which meant we had to do itfaster. Before one of us started thinking clearly.
Or before we get caught.
Our lips stayed locked as I reached between her legs, my fingers grazing the inner flesh of her pillow-soft thighs. I cupped my hand against her mound, trapping her heat and teasing her through the crotch of her shorts. Wanting more, she bucked her hips, impatiently thrusting against my hand.
I growled in her ear. “Bad girl.”
“Play with me,” she whispered, nibbling at my ear. “Please?”
God damn.
I reached under the elastic band of her shorts and a satisfied rumble escaped my throat—she wasn’t wearing panties. My hand brushed past a small tuft of her coarse hair. The damp heat between her legs grew hotter with every inch I traveled, making my cock strain with pent-up lust.
I touched my fingers to her sweltering folds and gasped with surprise.
“You’re soaking wet, Katerina.”
“Oh, God,” she moaned, her eyes rolling back in her head.
She squeezed at my biceps, making soft sounds of pleasure as I traced her slick and sensitive folds. Her lips grew plump and swollen as she opened for me, daring me to enter her with a finger.
The truth was, I’d never wanted anyone in my life as bad as I wanted Katerina. But as I circled her velvet-soft opening with the tip of my finger, Hath’s words from earlier began to echo in my mind.
You’re thinking with the wrong head, Reavo.
Promise me that you won’t do anything dumb.
I squeezed my eyes shut and tried to ignore Hath—we’d already gonethisfar, we couldn’t turn back now! But the more I tried to ignore him, the louder his voice grew.
PROMISE ME THAT YOU WON’T DO ANYTHING DUMB, REAVO!
17
Katerina
I was disgusted when I heard Derek shut the music off and whisk all those girls out to the club. He couldn’twaitto get away from me, could he?
I tried to sleep, but all I could do was toss and turn in his bed. I felt sostupid,so unbelievably ashamed and mortified at how I’d let myself get carried away in a pipe dream. And why? Sure, he was handsome and muscular and charming, but did I know anything about him at all? No, not really.