He paused only long enough to turn to his brother.“Go away,” he muttered, ignoring Laith’s good humored chuckle.When they were finally alone, albeit surrounded by the shredded mess of her apartment, he pulled Carys closer.“I was so concerned when my bodyguards couldn’t find you over the weekend that I asked my lead bodyguard to assign someone to watch out for you.I knew something was going on, but I didn’t know what that could be.I just…needed to know that you were safe.”
Her eyes narrowed, her temper starting to sizzle.“Was it the man following me to the deli during my lunch break?”she hissed, pressing against his shoulders.
Rafi nodded, grinning down at her.He didn’t let her push him back.Instead, he gripped her wrists and pinned her arms over her head against the wall behind her.“Yes.You gave your security detail the slip.”He kissed the corner of her mouth.“And you have to promise never to do that again.As a future princess and a member of a very powerful family, you will be guarded every moment of your life.”
Carys moaned, the sweet kisses making her mind turn to mush.“What if I don’t want that?”
“Too bad!”he snarled, then reached down to lift her into his arms.“In exchange for the best sex of your entire life, you’ll also have to deal with the downside of becoming my wife.”He nibbled at her neck until she moaned and he tossed her onto the destroyed bed.
Rafi kissed and teased her neck until her fingers tightened in his hair and she moaned in delight.But that wasn’t enough for him.After days apart, he needed to feel her explode around him.He needed Carys to know that he was the only man for her.He needed her to need him as much as he needed her!
So he kissed her, licked her skin, found every pulse point as he slowly stripped her clothes away.When she was naked, he stood up and stripped off his clothes, staring down at her soft, beautiful curves.“You’re my fantasy, Carys,” he admitted.
When he came down to her, he lifted her legs, tossing one over his shoulder and wrapping the other around his waist so she was open and vulnerable.“You’re everything to me.I can’t breathe without you.”He kissed her inner thigh.“You make me smile,” he kissed her hip, smiling at her frustration.“And you make me ache to hold you in my arms.”
When she tried to wiggle away from him, he held her still.It would be a challenge to get away because the mattress was sliced and all of her blankets and sheets had been cut in half.But this was Carys.When he made love to her, the rest of the world didn’t matter.Nothing mattered but Carys.
“Rafi!”she screamed when his tongue flicked against that sensitive nub.
“Hold still!”he ordered, then chuckled when she lifted her head to glare at him.She tried to pull away, but he was stronger and had the high ground.He held her in place and he shifted, sucking on that nub while he slid a finger into her heat.Carys writhed underneath him, groaning with delight and frustration.
“Don’t tease me, Rafi,” she begged.“Not today.”
He smiled, but ignored her, sucking harder, but right before she was going to climax, he pulled away.“You are absolutely delicious.”
Carys rolled her eyes and, out of frustration, she wiggled away from him.When he started to reach for her, she grabbed his hands and pushed him back.“No, today, I need to be in control.”She swung a leg over his hips, straddling him, still holding his wrists.“Today, you’re mine.”And with careful determination, she sank down on top of him, taking all of him into her body.Together they groaned with the rush of sensations, and Carys sighed with happiness.Then she guided his hands, placing one on each breast, shifting his fingers, silently demanding that he tease her nipples.
When he understood, his fingers went to work, stroking over her hardened tips, pinching then soothing, then pinching again until Carys was nearly crazy.She rode him, sliding up and down along his shaft, rolling her hips so that the nub he’d so recently teased would rub against his abdomen exactly how she needed it.
She started to object when he took one of his hands away from her breast, but he only pinched the other nipple, silencing her protest.Carys had no objections when his thumb reached down, pressing against that nub, helping her over the top.Moments later, she was screaming out his name, shifting against him as her pleasure swept her away.
Then, Rafi flipped their positions, taking control.Carys didn’t mind as she held onto his broad, muscular shoulders, laughing when she felt another ripple of pleasure hit her just at the same moment that he groaned with his own orgasm.
Afterwards, he pulled her into his arms, cradling her against his chest.Their bodies were at an odd angle on the bed since the sheets and blankets were shredded, but neither complained.
Chapter 32
Rafi stood patiently on the stoop.He could hear yelling inside the house.There were several female voices, all them raised, and a dog barking.Then footsteps.Someone was running to the door.
When the door finally opened, a cute little girl around the age of ten or eleven answered the door, staring all the way up at Rafi.“Is your father home?”he asked.
The girl remained still and silent, staring at him with an open mouth.
“Janey?Who’s at the door?”another female voice called out.
“A big, scary man, momma!”the little girl replied, still gripping the doorknob.
Rafi didn’t react, but he continued to stare down at the little girl.She looked oddly similar to Carys.Was this what Carys had looked like when her father had abandoned her?
Before he could ponder that question, a woman walked up behind the girl, drying her hands on a towel.“Hello?Can I help you?”
Rafi pulled his eyes away from the girl to stare into the eyes of a woman that he’d seen on a video just days before.“You must be Beth Remington,” Rafi replied.
The woman blushed and extended her hand.“That’s me.How can I help you?”
Rafi ignored her outstretched hand.“I need to speak with Philip Remington.”
Beth clearly didn’t like that.She retracted her hand, obviously feeling awkward.She rested both of her hands and the dish towel on the girl’s shoulders.“That’s my husband.What do you want with him?”
