Page 114 of Moonlight Hearts

“Do you want me to use a condom?”

I laughed, but the cotton caught most of the noise.“After all that?”

“Yes.”

I let out a stuttering breath.“No.Without is fine.”

If I’d thought that him…rimming me had been the most intense feeling I’d ever experienced, I was wrong.I wasn’t sure whether it was the angle or how sensitive he’d already made me, but when he lined up and pushed into me, it was almost enough to make me come.I had no idea why.My cock was twitching, and Soyer hadn’t even touched it once.

I breathed.In through my nose, out into the sheets, all so I’d last a few more seconds.

Soyer ran his hand down my spine.“I can feel how tightly you’re wound.Don’t hold back, Amory.I want to see you not holding back.”

I wasn’t positive whether it was his words or just the fact that my control had been fading.Regardless, I came.Some of it hit my chest, and my thigh muscles shook.It went long too, maybe because Soyer was moving through my release, stimulating what was already overstimulated.

Even as I was coming down from the high, I felt him, his hold on me tight, his thrusts hard and deep.I was so loose now, so spent that I couldn’t do anything but take this, and that was a different kind of pleasure, one I’d have to sort through later when I could think straight again.

I welcomed his release when it came.He held on to me for long seconds after, keeping our bodies connected, but then he stroked along my spine and pulled out, helping me roll onto my back.He cupped my cheek and ran his thumb over my bottom lip.

“I’ll go run us a bath.You stay right here and don’t move a muscle.”My eyes flicked to the nightstand, and Soyer rolled his eyes.“Yes, I’ll also put the ice cream in the freezer.So long as you don’t move and rest.”

“Soyer?”

“Yes, my heart?”

“That was… I think my back is sticky.From the ice cream.”

He smiled.“I’ll change the sheets.Hush now.Rest.”

He pulled a corner of the duvet over me to make sure I’d not get cold and, like he’d promised, he grabbed the ice cream and ran it downstairs to the freezer before he came back up and turned on the water in the bathroom.

I was getting sleepy when he came to get me.He kissed me, smelling of soap.I wasn’t entirely sure I’d have minded if he hadn’t washed his face before doing that, not tonight.

We lounged in the tub for a long while, and Soyer got me to sit on the couch while he changed the sheets and heated up a wild selection of leftovers for dinner.I convinced him to watch a history documentary about the Middle Ages with me, so he put his laptop on the coffee table and indulged my questions about what we were seeing and how it matched what he’d lived through.It wasn’t the documentary I cared about though, it was Soyer’s answers and the little tidbits he added that I was most interested in.Nothing he chose to share with me would ever bore me, I was certain of that.

Chapter Thirty-Two

Soyer,Valentin,andSimeonwere scheduled to leave on Tuesday to avoid the holiday return travel.That meant that on Monday, I had one more day to serve Soyer his cherry pie before he’d be gone.Winter had really settled by then.

We’d seen a good amount of snow, with plows keeping the streets clear.It reminded me that the reader had mentioned a sexy plowman, which made me wonder whether I should’ve gotten the title of the book he’d been reading to make the next few days pass faster.

The diner had been decently busy when I’d come in and had remained so for most of my shift.It was nothing like the reopening, but there was always something to do.Lynn and Duncan had dropped by again, and Lynn showed me photos of the cat doorknobs on her new kitchen cabinets.They’d left shortly after, having gotten a call that had them rushing out in such a hurry that I didn’t even have time to wrap their food to go.

Rae frowned at the door closing behind them.“Ugh, emergencies.Aren’t you glad we don’t get emergencies?”

“Like a coffee emergency?”I tried to look serious.

They nodded.“You mean, like, if we ran out of coffee?Oh, thatwouldbe bad.Ben, what would we do if there was a coffee emergency?”

Ben slurped from the cup I’d refilled ten minutes ago.“I don’t know.I don’t work here.”

Rae gasped.“You would let the undercaffeinated mob take us?”

That had me cackling.

Rae turned to look at me, their expression concerned.“Amory, are you okay?That wasn’t even that funny.”

“Or funny at all,” Ben added.