Page 96 of The Kiss Of Death
“How many girls have you had sex with?” I blurted out, out of nowhere. Okay, I’d definitely inherited Grandma’s genes. Maybe Iwasa jealous person. I took out his phone from my skirt pocket. “You left it in my room.”
“It’s not important,” he said, trying to get out of the conversation, his fingers brushing over my white lace high-knee socks.
“I think it’s fair that I should know. Did you bang one of them?” My voice pitched.What is happening to me?Did I really say bang? My heart blazed like a fiery violin, each note resonating through my veins, melting away all reason.
“No,” he said. “I let a few suck me, but it wasn’t entrancing enough for me to be interested in sex afterward.”
I hummed. A girl should keep her purity while men, men could do whatever the fuck they wanted. He was experienced. I wasn’t. Not that I was thinking of having sex with him. But he’d touched me down there, and we’d gone on a date, so that gave me the right to ask, right?
“And with Tara?”
“Experimental. We tried things to spark at least something in one another, but it was a failure. Imagine dating yourself. It’d be chaotic.”
“So she didn’t… satisfy you?” I was bad at having those conversations.
“I’m here having a boner just because you’re sitting on my lap, Dalia.” His fingers cupped my jaw, tilting my head so I’d meet his darkened eyes. “The basic things don’t usually exciteme. I tried more things than you to make me feel something. Like I said, it didn’t work. Until you. I noticed the way some men lust after you. I usually don’t care about sharing, but with you, it drives me crazy. I want to drive a knife through their throat and watch them bleed. So does that answer your question, or do you want a live demonstration of the effect you have on me?”
My stomach was burning, and I felt something happeningdown there. I was getting wet. I clenched my legs together. Levi grabbed his phone and flipped to the selfie camera.
“What are you doing?” I asked.
“I’m making a statement and changing my lock screen.”
He branded his mouth with mine, his hand capturing my throat. The flash of the picture blinded me right before he pulled back.
“Don’t post that,” I warned. “If my father sees this, he’ll go insane.”
Me, sitting on a man’s lap, his tongue in my throat, his hand roaming over my leg—he’d resent me forever.
He tilted his head. “Are you ashamed of me?”
“No, but he’ll never understand this. Plus, he’s busy with an export contract, and paperwork usually puts him in a bad mood. He looked exhausted earlier.”
“Export contract?” Levi flashed a smile.
I narrowed my eyes on him. “The point is, I want to be sure before making it official.”
“Sure, huh?” he said, his voice deadly. “You’re still not sure about us?”
“Levi,” I whispered, but it was too late. I had awoken the monster inside him.
His hand closed on mine, and he led me away, his tall figure cutting through the throng of people. He clutched onto my hand harder and quickened his pace. I struggled to keep up with his determined stride. The world around us seemed to blur, thenoise merging into a distant hum as we reached an adjacent room.
It was a mix between a storage room and an old private library with some cherry wood bookshelves and a couch nestled in the middle. He locked the door behind him, trapping us both inside. A sinister smirk inked his lips as he slowly approached me.
“What are we doing here?”
“Rectifying what you said.” He loomed closer, his teeth nipping at the lobe of my ear. “You had your time to escape me, my little thief. Now I’ll have to prove to you how much you are mine.”
I wet my lips, my heart jumping in my chest as he lowered his mouth to my neck. He drew his hand underneath my skirt, his fingers tickling up my thighs.
“Pull your panties down,” his soft voice ordered. “No one will interrupt us.”
“Levi—”
“I’m afraid you’ll have to trust me.”
There, inside Levi, hid a monster but also a terrified, broken boy. He had a duality, one that was scared, vulnerable, and lonely. The other was calculative, power-hungry, and twisted. Both of them were calling to me right now, so I lowered my panties until they met the floor.
