Page 91 of The Innovator

Needing to touch her, I dipped my hand into the warm water, shoving away the petals, and my cock hardened seeing her bare body. She was so beautiful and all mine.

“I had a conversation with the security manager, telling him I was here to surprise my girlfriend. After checking my credentials, he let me in, and I gave him a generous tip. Money can solve a lot of things.”

She’d only been gone for six days and it felt like it had been a year. This desperate yearning wasn’t normal for me. Abandoning several multimillion-dollar projects so I could see her face was something new to me.

When I entered the apartment, I had expected her to be on the couch resting, but finding her naked in the bathtub had been a bonus.

“Seems I need to have a chat with André about letting in strangers.”

The rose petals clinging to her body made her appear like a decorative appetizer, calling to me. My hand cupped her breast, kneading, and earning a delightful moan from her lips.

“We’re not strangers, buttercup. I think we know each other pretty well.” I teased her nipple between my fingers, and her eyes fluttered. “Did you think of me last night?”

Desire darkened her eyes. “Yes,” she said in a breathy voice that also contained a plea.

My blood heated from the needy look on her face. My cock jerked with desperation.Calm down, buddy.

I wanted to jump into the bathtub that could fit three people, but seeing her facial expressions as I adored her with my fingers was more enticing at the moment. Every moan she released belonged to me.

“I missed you so damn much.” Though I’d been working on leads about Derek and The Trogyn, I had to come to see her for several reasons. One was to make sure my love was okay. Two, to meet her mother, and three, to meet with a few people Rafael had mentioned to me.

But I’d keep the latter to myself because it would only give her anxiety. My intention was to protect her.

“What did you imagine?” I asked, loving the way her skin flushed from my touch.

Her chest rose and fell as I grabbed a rose petal and brushed it against one nipple, then the other. “You were here with me . . .”

“And.”

“Doing all kinds of . . .”

“Hmm?” My eyes fixated on that sexy mouth, holding back what I wanted to hear.

“Sexy things . . .sinfulthings . . .” The blues in her eyes shifted to a different color. “Kinkythings . . . to me.”

Fuuuck.

“Well, I suppose I should be a gentleman and make your dreams come true.” But there was nothing gentlemanly about the things I wanted to do to her.

Stripping off my clothes, I stepped into the tub. Warm water sloshed over my legs, disturbing the petals that probably hadn’t expected a man to join them tonight. Who would have thought I’d be bathing in a tub full of roses and essential oils?

Who am I?

A man in love.

“Don’t move.” She got onto her knees and gripped my cock with a firm hand.

My body paused at her seductive command. Mischief flickered in her eyes, sending a thrill through me.

“One passion from theDiscipline of Virtueis wonder, then desire. . .” She stroked me with perfection—a skill only a creative mind could master. I grew larger, harder. “I’ve been thinking about this marvelous stalk all day. Have you been kissed by a rose,amour?” She spoke to it as though it understood her.

My cock twitched in response as a rose petal brushed gently up and down my length. Each feathery touch blazed with potent fire that almost undid me.

A storm brewed inside me, threatening to rage from the decadent kiss of a rose petal, followed by sinful lips that made me the luckiest man alive.

Her mouth skimmed down my length, and I was bewildered by the beautiful face, that sexy mouth, and her dangerous tongue.

“Natalie, I think, therefore I am.” My hand settled on her head. “I’m in fucking heaven.”

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