Page 49 of Virtue & Vengeance

“Stop it,” I said, taking yet another step away from him.

“You started this,” he continued. “How does it feel knowing my fingers have made you come? These hands,” he said, holding his hands up in my face. “The same hands that pleasured you, took someone’s life? And you begged for more, too. What’s that say about you?”

He pushed and pushed until finally, I snapped.

“I hate you!”

He moved closer, snatching me by the arm and pulling me into his chest.

“No, you want me, and you hate yourself because of it.”

Then his lips crushed mine, and instead of pushing away as I should have, I opened for him.

Tasting him.

Breathing him in.

Memorizing his lips on mine and the flavor of all that he was.

His finger dipped into the top of my dress and across my hardened nipple, and I hissed as the pleasure struck me between my thighs.

He pulled away, and his eyes stayed on my face, watching my expressions as he enjoyed my reaction to his touch.

“I’ve been inside you,” he said.

I nibbled my lip to hold back the moan when he brushed my nipple once again.

“And?”

“And I want to be inside you again.”

I should have stopped him.

With everything going on at the moment. The staff at Empire Sevens and their rude attitudes. Aunt Kennedy being gone. All of my worries over Allen. And now him admitting that he was a murderer. Sex should have been the last thing on my mind.

It wasn’t.

It was the first.

The list of all the reasons I should stop him could go on forever, but it didn’t matter because the last thing I wanted was for him to stop. I wanted Zander Hale.

What could giving in to temptation once more really do?

I was already going to hell.

I was already caught up over him, and I knew in the back of my head that he would never be the things I wanted him to be.

Why not take advantage and enjoy him and the things he could do to my body while I had the chance?

I nodded, tilting my head to the side to give him my neck.

“Okay.”

The word bounced from my lips, and for once I didn’t want to take it back. He moaned against my flesh, and I melted for him.

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