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“It’s my understanding that you’re supposed to be watching my every move,” I said. “That’s pretty hard to do in separate rooms, so I should probably stay in here.”

A wicked smile curved his kissable lips. “That’s the excuse you’re using?”

“Will it get me in your bed?”

Shep whipped the sheets off. Unlike me, he hadn’t bothered wearinganyclothes. “Does it look like I’m kicking you out?”

Non, it did not. Shep’s cock was standing up to invite me closer. But just as Iwas about to climb in beside him, he held up a finger, halting me.

“Is there a problem?” I asked.

“Yes.” Shep’s gaze dropped back below my waist. “You’re wearing too many clothes.”

I couldn’t help my grin as I slid my thumbs into the elastic of my briefs and slipped them down my body. When I was finally as naked as he was, I slowly turned, arms outstretched so he could see all of me.

“Well, do I have permission now?”

Shep reached over to his side drawer, pulled out a bottle of lube, and tossed it on the bed beside him. “Get in here.”

As I climbed onto the bed, Shep reached for my hand and pulled me down onto the mattress, rolling the two of us until I was on my back and he was hovering over me.

“Ah, you want to play boss tonight,” I teased as I spread my legs, letting him settle in between them. “Or maybe the big, brave bodyguard. Do you want me to act helpless? Pretend I need rescuing?”

Shep stared down at me, and with a hand on either side of my head, it allowed me a delicious look at all of his rippling muscles.

“How about we don’t play any role tonight?” he suggested, his voice rough like gravel. “How about we just be ourselves?”

I wasn’t sure what it was about that particular suggestion that made my heart race. It wasn’t like this was the first time we’d been together.

“Ourselves?”

“Yes.” Shep lowered his head until his lips were by my ear. “I want to be with Theo tonight. Not the Prince of Monaco, not my ‘brother’ from Libertine. I want to be with the man who drives me crazy and yet still somehow manages to make me laugh.”He brushed his lips over the top of mine and then added, “I want to be withyou, Theo.”

I trembled as Shep moved down over me. When he trailed his fingers along my thigh to the crook of my knee, I lifted it up over his hip.

“Let me take you like this,” he said, pressing soft kisses down to my jaw. “Open up to me. Let me watch you fall apart.”

Mon Dieu.Was I really going to do this? It was one thing to have a few quick fucks, ones where no thought was involved, no feelings other than who could get who off the quickest. But as Shep’s cock glided back and forth over my skin, marking me with his pre-cum, all I could think about was feeling him inside me.

“Take me,” I said in a voice I barely recognized.

It wasn’t that I was granting permission so much as I was imploring him to enjoy me, revel in me. I wanted him to lose himself in a way he never had before, and more than ever, I wanted to watchhimfall the fuck apart.

“Hmm, I like the sound of that.”

That made two of us.

I also liked the raspy groan that followed when I wound my arms around his neck and rolled my hips up off the bed to grind my cock against his.

Shep’s fingers tightened under my knee as he held it up around his waist, but he didn’t need to worry. Now that I had my sights set on taking him, I wouldn’t let go until I had him.

My eyes slammed shut as he kissed me in a way that would’ve knocked me off my feet if I weren’t already flat on my back, because Shepard Winchester the third kissed like he’d taken a master class in it.

Non, non,that wasn’t right. He didn’t need totakea master class. He’d be teaching the damn thing.

“Shep,” I said, tearing my mouth free and smoothing my hand down to his chest. “I…”

My words got lost as he trailed his fingers down the side of my face to my mouth, and when he gently traced the outline of it,my stomach flipped.