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He held her eyes with his blue metallic ones, lined with undoubtable softness. Then, with the intensity of his stare, he leaned forward to lick up her palm. It tickled, and she had to stop herself from frowning at what he was doing.

“I am sorry I assumed the worst from you when you had actually been treated with great and terrible unkindness.” He licked over her thumb before he brought it into his mouth for a moment. “And that it was caused by my carelessness.”

His tongue ran under her fingers before coming back to kiss each knuckle.

“I am sorry my actions put you in a position of danger, and that I shouted at you for the consequences of those actions.”

“What are you doing?” she softly asked when he began to bring each finger into his mouth to suck on for a moment.

“I am removing his unwanted touch from you,” he answered, and her stomach clenched in reaction to his tenderness.

Geryon reached up to grab her other hand from his shoulder, releasing the first so he could begin to play with this one using his tongue and lips.

I should be pulling away.He was rude to her. He didn’t deserve her forgiveness. Yet, she was surprised at how sensitive her palms and fingers were to his touch. Desire pooled subtly between her legs from the wetness of his tongue, the caring and sweet strokes of it.

“And I am most sorry for upsetting you when you were not deserving of my anger.”

“You did not apologise for doing it,” she told him, a small breath leaving her when he licked over the sensitive nerves in her wrist.

His touches were more sensual this time, more playful, while his eyes darted between looking at what he was doing, to looking at her face.

“I should not have taken you so out in the open.” He leaned forward to swipe his tongue against her throat, right where Daerk had tried to kiss at her neck. “But I will not apologise for taking you, not when I enjoyed it so much.”

A rush of prickling goosebumps washed over her skin from her neck down to her chest. They made a shiver tickle down her spine, caused her nipples to bud. She wasn’t sure if the reaction was from his touch or his words.

Valerie was torn, wanting to tell him to stop because he deserved to be punished, the logical side of her demanding it. Yet the rest of her wanted him to keep touching her in the gentle way he was.

There was no heat to it, no rough passion like usual, but it set her body aflame all the same.

Right now, she needed someone to not be forceful and overpowering. For some reason, she wanted to allow him to comfort her and help her forget what just happened.

“What if someone tries to come in?” she asked, not needing another person to discover them.

“No one will come into this room, for it is mine,” he told her before he began to trail deep, slow kisses against her skin.

Her eyes darted around the room, taking in the masculine details.I am in his chambers?

He brushed his lips up her jaw until he took her lips with his own.

So soft.His kisses were light, barely caving her lips under his.So slow.It made her feel every drawing movement, allowed her to simply feel the firmness and shape of his mouth.So gentle.Even his tongue seemed shy, only just lapping at the seam of her lips rather than slipping inside her mouth.

So sweet.She couldn’t help deepening the kiss herself, slipping her tongue into his mouth just so she could have a taste of him.

He slowly pushed her backwards until her backside felt something hard. Reaching back with her free hand, she touched what she thought was a desk behind her.

Geryon pulled away from the kiss with a deep pant. “Where else did he touch you?” He swept his fingertips very gently over one of her breasts. “Did he touch you here?”

She shook her head. “He did not touch me anywhere else.”

“Are you sure?”

He lowered his head to kiss at the pale skin of her chest. She felt her dress being pinched up by both his hands, the skirt of it crawling against her skin and making her shiver.

“No, stop,” she whispered.

He immediately paused and looked up, his lips still pressed against the mound of one of her breasts.

She averted her gaze from his frown. “I do not wish to have sex with anyone right now.”