“Yeah?”
“Yeah!”
With every blistering comeback, she stood higher on her tiptoes, and it still wasn’t enough to bring her mouth near mine.
So, what she did, in her infinite wisdom, was bite my chin.
Yeah, she bit my fucking chin.
Like this was some kind of Shakespearian tragedy or something.
When I hissed in discomfort, when the kitten dug her claws in deep, though not deep enough for my liking, she smirked at me.Gesùhelp me, but I wanted to see that smirk every day for the rest of my godawful life.
Her smugness faded.
Not in fear.
But her lips trembled as they parted, revealing the teeth capable of such agrievousassault to my gaze.
My nostrils flared as the battleground of our stare went on for a lifetime, and then out of nowhere, her hand was on me.
Shaping me.
Fingers splayed as she rubbed my cockthrough my fly.
Adam’s apple sinking as she dared me with her silence to stop her, I swallowed again.
Because I couldn’t stop her.
Not even if I wanted to.
Around her, I was fucking weak.
And that, right there, was when it hit me.
Inappropriate and totally the wrong time but…
If Evangeline had done this, I’d have been able to stop her.
I hadn’t been weak around her.
I hadneverbeen weak around her.
Much like I wasn’t around Rory.
There was never a moment where I would fail my sisters.
Plural.
Because that was what Evangeline was to me, and we Valentinis loved hard and fought until the bitter end for our family.
As that revelation ricocheted around my gray matter, as Conor O’Donnelly’s wisdom hit home at the worst possible moment, Kitty was entirely unaware that she’d rattled my world view.
Because she took my silence as a ‘yes’ when it was a ‘holy fuck’ and dropped to her knees.
The sight kickstarted my brain and had my faltering erection correcting itself. Double-time. I cupped her elbows and hauled her up.
Her expression crumpled with a mixture of frustration and desperation, but they soon disappeared when I used my hold on her to swing her around and walked her over to the bed.
