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My bathing suit top fell away, and Dash’s eyes immediately dropped to my breasts.

“Fuck, sweetheart.” He groaned as he licked his lips hungrily. “You’re trying to kill me.”

Why was he making this harder than it really needed to be? He talked about how I was trying to kill him, but I was the one who was going to die if he didn’t give me what I wanted.

I scooted farther up his lap. He made a noise that sounded almost as if he were in pain when I leaned forward and pressed my bare chest into his.

My nipples immediately hardened as soon as they came in contact with his hard chest that gave off an incredible heat that sent shivers down my spine. Heat pooled between my thighs, and I couldn’t stop myself from grinding down on his erection, rubbing myself against it.

“Shit, Ariel. I think we should slow down.”

Fuck slow. Things had been nonexistent between us for what felt like months now. Wasn’t that slow enough? I thought so, but clearly he thought differently because he was ridiculous like that.

I arched my back and placed my hands behind me on his thighs as I continued to grind down on his cock. There were too many layers of clothing between us.

I wanted to sit on his cock for real and feel him move inside of me.

“You’re like a damn siren, and I’m not strong enough to stand up against your song.”

Wasn’t that quite the compliment to be had?

He buried his face between my breasts as he wrapped his arms around me. He slid his palms up my back. One stopped below my shoulders while his other hand slipped up my neck and into my hair. He gripped a handful of my hair at the back of my head.

He stood up quickly, and I let out a little girly scream as his legs went out from below my hands and I had nothing else to hold onto. I wrapped my legs around his hips as his hands went to my ass to support me. He chuckled as I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and clung onto him.

“You better not drop me!” I grumbled as I shoved my face in his neck. I knew there was no way he’d ever drop me, but I had to give him a hard time for scaring me.

I kissed my way up his throat and along his jaw as he carried me down the hallway and toward his bedroom. I was happy when he chose his room instead of mine. My babies did not need to be disturbed—yes, mine! Eat your heart out, Uncle Quint! The one was a bit of a hellcat, and the other one was kind of lazy. They both needed their beauty rest.

Plus, didn’t babies sleep a lot? I figured cats were no different.

Dash left the door open as he prowled toward the bed. If I wasn’t so ready to get it on, I might have asked him to shut the door because people around here could be nosy, and we needed this moment to be just between the two of us.

Dash sat me down on the foot of his bed and kissed me. I sighed happily and opened my mouth for him. His tongue slipped inside, and I could have cried. It felt like he was finally coming home to me after years of being away.

It felt fuckinggreat.

He kissed me like a man who’d been starved, and I was the only meal in sight and the tastiest one.

It was him this time who ground his erection into me. We both groaned and broke the kiss.

He cupped my cheeks and stared into my eyes. “You know I love you more than anything in this whole world, right?” He paused and waited, so I nodded as I chewed on the corner of my bottom lip. His eyes dropped to my mouth and they heated.

“I need to know that you forgive me for being an absolute dick to you. Just the thought of you leaving me, us, our coven, ripped me apart and brought out the absolute worst in me. I feel like the only good things I’ve ever had in my life are Binx and the guys. Then I got you. It felt like everything I’d gone through had been worth it if it meant I got to be with you in the end because you’re worth everything to me. Then it felt like you just threw it all away and tossed it in all of our faces so you could run off to greener pastures.”

Pissed off, I opened my mouth to argue with him but snapped it shut when he held up his hand to stop me.

“And then to find out you left me only so you could rescue my father?” He shook his head, and I swore I saw a sheen of tears in his eyes. “I don’t know how I’ll ever be able to thank you for that, or how I’m ever going to be good enough for a girl like you. I just know that I can’t have you leaving me for anything ever again. But I know it’s not fair of me to ask that of you. We have so much shit coming down on us right now that I know we’re all going to have to do things that all of us aren’t going to approve of just to make sure we get through this alive and together. I guess I’m just scared, and I don’t know what the hell I’m supposed to do about it.”

I could see it took a lot out of him to admit all of that to me, and I really appreciated his honesty.

But I was way the fuck over it. And he should have known that by now.

What was he trying to do here, distract me so I wouldn’t try to get him to have sex with me anymore?

Not on his fucking life.

I loved how he felt about me, but I was so damn tired of talking about what I’d done and listening to their opinions on the matter that I had actually started to shut down when anyone brought it up to me.