Page 69 of Collide

I couldn’t help the undignified snort that left my lips. “Business. Sure.”

The burning jealousy that had been bubbling away all day spiked andif he kept pushing, it wouldn’t be long until it erupted.

I couldn’t be bothered to deal with this shit, I wanted morechampagne. I tried to pull my arm out of his grasp but Kai’s grip on my back and hand tightened. He leaned in closer to me so his mouth was next to my ear.

“You need to start talking. Right. Now.” The threatening tone wasback, but I was so done with his bullshit.

“Why are you bothering with me, Kai? I mean, what’s in this deal foryou? Especially when you can go to your club every night and fuck any woman you want?” I hissed.

The thread of dignity I had been holding on to snapped, the jealousyspilling out. The second the words left my mouth I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me whole which was only compounded when the gorgeous bastard smirked at me.

Fucking smirked.

At me.

“You’re jealous,” he accused, mockingly.

“You know what, Kai, fuck you. I want to go.”

I tried to pull out of his arms again, but he was too strong. He gave asubtle look around to the crowd to make sure no one had witnessed my little outburst, which had been louder than what I’d intended. Thankfully, people were too engrossed in the music, or too drunk to notice our little spat.

“Riley,” Kai said, and any hint of amusement that had been in hisvoice had disappeared. “I don’t know where you got your information from but it’s wrong. I do regularly go to my club and yeah, in the past I’ve fucked some of the girls there. But two weeks ago when I laid eyes on you, I haven’t touched another woman. I haven’t so much asthoughtabout touching another woman.” He paused, letting that sink in and holding my stare, letting me know that every word he’d just spoken was true.

“Oh.”

“Yeah,oh. I obviously haven’t made my feelings clear for you Riley,but you are the only woman who consumes my thoughts, the only woman I want to take to my bed, and the only woman I want to be inside of.”

As if to prove that, he rubbed his hardening cock against my belly andI swear, I had to clamp my thighs together to stop myself from gushing.

“I’m trying to do the right thing and not rush you, but if you need me tobe more obvious about my fucking feelings for you, Star, I will.”

I didn’t have time to react before his lips were upon me.

Kai didn’t seem to care that we were in the middle of a dance floor atthe city ball with a whole heap of important people as he devoured my mouth. His tongue swept inside my mouth, which offered no resistance to him, finding my tongue and stroking it. His teeth nibbled against my bottom lip sending lightning bolts straight to my already wet core. I moaned against his soft lips and he responded by thrusting his hard cock against my stomach again.

There was nothing sweet about the kiss, it was rough, raw andtypically Kai, he took what he wanted. The hand holding mine suddenly gripped my chin and pulled me in closer against him, and my now free hand grabbed his hip in an attempt to steady my weak knees.

Holy fuck, did Kai know how to kiss.

The kiss lasted no more than ten seconds but it felt like it went on foreternity. When we finally broke apart, my eyes darted around to see people staring at us, some with smiles on their faces, some of the women with scowls. But Kai only had eyes for me, and right now it looked like it was taking him a lot of strength not to hike my dress up and thrust inside of me, onlookers be damned.

We stared deeply at each other for a minute, my stomach doing allsorts of crazy acrobats. My head was a mess, and there was too much noise going on, too many people around for me to think clearly. I really wanted, no,needed,to get out of there.

“Kai, can we go?” I whispered.

Completely unintentionally, my eyes drifted to his mouth as histongue darted out to lick his lips which were stained with my red lipstick.

Holy fucking hell, I wanted his tongue licking every part of me.

My pussy throbbed in desperate need of Kai’s attention, and fromhow hard his cock was in his pants, he seemed only too happy to give it the attention it wanted.

Before he had the chance to respond though, we were interrupted bythe old man from earlier.

“Pardon the interruption,” Mr. Johnson beamed at me, “but this younglady promised me a dance and I’m not getting any younger.” He chuckled at his own joke which gave me a chance to look at Kai, who looked like he was doing his best not to pull his gun out and pop a cap into old Mr. Johnson’s ass.

“Of course.” I smiled as best as I could at the man, but my brain wasnot firing straight, not after that kiss.

Reluctantly,very reluctantly, both Kai and I let go of each other.

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