Well, notjustto fuck her.
But to cradle her, to show her the world, to lay the whole fucking world at her feet for her amusement, and to impale anyone who looked at her with anything less than admiration and respect upon any sharp instrument at hand.
And to be the only one to wring brain-melting orgasms out of her for the rest of her life.
I swept her up, dashing her out of the casino and to the car.
And then in the back seat of the car, when she moved across me, hiking up her skirt and standing on her knees over me in the back of the car, I couldn’t breathe. I barked at those damned security goons, “Get us into a garage and park the car.”
And then she kissed me, her soft body moving above me.
She was just enjoying thekiss,justa kiss,with none of the clawing rush to the finish. Flutters of discovery ran through her.
She didn’t know to crave what she hadn’t been taught yet.
My body jolted, already speeding down the straightaway from the kiss to the caress, to the nakedness, and then to penetration, my desire becoming darker, selfish, seeking domination instead of connection.
She wanted to be kissed, touched, to feel loved.
I shouldn’t be the one to take that away from her.
But I couldn’t keep my hands off her.
CHAPTER 18
just a kiss
LEXI
The SUV tilted down and turned sharply, the centrifugal force jerking my lips away from Nicolai’s. We skidded to a stop in a different parking garage under Caesars Palace.
The security guys bailed and slammed their doors behind them, Ueili a little harder than usual. The SUV beeped as they strolled away, but the engine and air conditioning continued to howl.
Standing on my knees above where Nicolai sank into the soft seat, my nose was above his, and he was looking up at me. With his lips parted, his expression was almost innocent. He was so gorgeous, his strong cheekbones and jaw carved lean on his face, and those eyes, his bright eyes grayed by the yellow sodium tube lights on the parking garage’s ceiling, were fixed on me.
Nicolai’s fingers flexed on the silk of my dress on my thighs, and his breathing was quick, the top of his chest rising with each gasp. “You are so beautiful, Lexi. From the first time I saw you, you were so beautiful.”
I tilted my head at his silliness. “I was wearingmime makeup.”
“It was your eyes.” His body was practically humming with wild energy between my legs. He lifted his hand to my shoulder, running his fingers up my neck. His thumb dragged across my lower lip. “Your luminous dark eyes, and your mouth. That mouth of yours was all I could think about in the club after I saw you.”
His touch felt like the promise of a kiss, and my head grew lighter. “Are you drunk?”
“I had a few, that shot John handed me and two glasses of champagne, but we were there for four hours. I’m stone-cold sober now. You?”
“I switched to water after I accused you of being a fae High Lord.”
The corners of his mouth curved, but he didn’t look away from my eyes. “Probably for the best.”
He caressed the back of my neck, his fingers tunneling into my hair. His grip on the back of my neck weighed heavier, drawing me down again.
His eyes flipped up at the last minute, a check, but I was already bending to kiss him.
Our first kiss had been at our wedding, to seal the deal.
Our second was just a few minutes ago, petty revenge against a jerk.
But this one, this one was the first one that counted. This one was forus.
