Page 92 of Sweet Deception

“Now, that wasn’t so bad. Was it, princess?”

I shake my head. “Surprisingly not.”

“Shall we?”

Shall we what?I’m dying to know, but I don’t say anything as we rise from the table and head back out into the lofty first floor hallway.

While Darren and I climb the grand staircase to the third floor, I wonder why bonding with everyone tonight came so easily. When I search my own memory, I don’t recognize the woman I was at dinner. Sociable, easygoing, talkative.Me? Since when?

“What is it?” Darren’s smooth, deep voice cuts through my musings.

“Hmm?”

“You’ve clearly got something on your mind.” Once we arrive on the third-floor landing, he leans a little closer to me. “What is it?”

“Oh.” My cheeks warm. “Um…it’s just that I’ve been alone for so long. I’ve needed to be, you know? But that dinner, with everyone talking and laughing, that was…really, really nice.”

Darren’s long, lithe fingers thread through mine.

“It’s good that you enjoyed yourself. You’ll see them again at breakfast.”

He turns to march down the hall, and I blink when we pass my door. “Wasn’t that my room?” There are an awful lot of spaces in this mansion, but I’m pretty sure I recognize which door I came out of.

Darren pauses and fixes those laser-beam eyes on mine. Electricity crackles through me, hot and powerful. “It was. But that’s not where we’re going.”

My heart jumps into my mouth.

He inches closer to me, forcing me back against the wall. “Obviously, we’re going to mine.”

Chapter Thirty-Three

The minute we enter the door of my suite, she starts shedding her clothes. Takes everything in me not to rip them right off her body as we stumble backward in the dark, me pushing her toward the California king bed tucked into the far corner.

Nika grabs at my clothes, too, and I help her yank them off my body, discarding them along the way. By the time we reach the mattress, we’re naked and clawing at each other like a pair of wild animals in the dead of night.

“Come here.” She jumps at my command, thrusting her legs around my waist as I pull her body snug against my chest. My dick isn’t mad about it either.

I tumble us down into my sheets while our tongues tangle in an erotic dance.

Seems like forever since we touched each other like this.

Why does a few days apart feel so long?

Nika arches into my chest, tightening her arms around my neck while I kiss her for dear life. My dick slides through her slickness, and she moans against my mouth.

“Yeah?”

She nods eagerly. “I want you.” She returns her lips to mine.

Something intense and victorious reverberates through my whole body, just from those three little words.

“Tonight, you’re going to get me.” I balance my forehead against hers as I sink inside her. Her head drops back against the sheets when I push all the way inside, wildfire blazing through my chest.

Heat consumes me as I rock us back and forth, plunging into her as far as I can go.

Nika doesn’t utter a sound while I move inside her. Instead, she stares up into my eyes, her arms still locked around my shoulders. She takes it all in silence, damp-eyed and wordless, gazing at me like I’m a star in the night sky. Her intensity sears my blood, building pressure at the base of my spine, but I’m not ready to come just yet.

I roll us both over until she’s on top of me, bracing her hands against my chest while she rides me at her own pace, sweet and raw. My hands trace up and down her thighs and sides while she goes at it.