He grabbed my wrist and despite his jacket covering the inches of my skin, his heat seeped through it and broke me apart, then dragged me out into his hallway. His room was on the opposite side, shut and dark.
I forced him to stop in the middle, “I’m not going in there.”
He whipped around, nostrils flaring. “I’m not letting my wife sleep at another man’s house.”
“It’s Umaima’s house.”
“UmaimaandHasan’s house.”
There was a dark look in his eyes, and I was getting lost in them. He wasn’t lying to me, nor was he pretending to drag me into his room to get down and dirty.
“You’re jealous of Hasan?” That couldn’t be right. The man had a son and was still madly in love with his wife. “He’s like my brother, Christian.”
His aphotic glare provoked taking a step back. “But heisn’tyour brother.”
“Are you being serious right now?” This conversation could go on forever, but my feet were hurting, and my legs were sore from standing and all I wanted to do was get into bed to avoid the oncoming headache.
“I’ll sleep in here,” I directed his attention to the ominous closed door that was always locked. If he didn’t want me going to Umaima’s and I didn’t want to sleep with him, this was our only option.
“Not in there.”
“Christian,” I exasperated. “I’m tired, please just open the door.”
“I can’t do that.”
“Why?”
“Because it’s storage.”
Well, wasn't that great.
“I’ll sleep on the couch downstairs then.” He pulled me back into him, my head tucked beneath his chin. I wished my body didn’t illuminate with a ferocious need at his chest to my back, but it did. I’d love for him to take this coat off and finish what we started earlier.
With a grumble, “It’s just sleeping, Adelaide.”
“You don’t want to sleep with me in the same bed,” I pulled away to face him.
A raised brow. “Why?”
“Because…” Other than the fact that I did want to jump his bones?
“I sleep naked.”
Christian stared down with twinkling eyes. “Is that so?”
Feverish and completely compulsive, I nodded. “Yep. No panties or anything. Bare and raw andtotallygross.”
He chuckled and all it did was make my core tingle. “I find nothing about your pussy gross.”
Lord, help me because I was so close to getting down on my knees and unbuckling his pants to suck him off. He had the presence of a tyrant but spoke with gentility and it turned me on.
“Right so,” I swallowed the aridness in my throat. “Let’s go then.”
I walked past him.
His room.This was the first time I’d taken a step into his space, and it was unexpected.
Where I thought he’d drown his room in nothing but monotone colours, Christian decorated his room with colourful paintings, antique decorations, and familiar objects I’d seen in his childhood home—inEunbin’sroom.
