“So, I’m in?”
“The founding members are in agreement,” he confirmed.
“Founder members?”
“Alexei, Dante, Diego, and Cesar,” he explained.“You’ll meet them, but Blood and Thunder very quickly expanded to include more of our colleagues who served with us in Special Forces, so now we have branches across the world.”
“Army training isn’t mandatory?”
“No, and neither is playing polo,” he added, bringing her close outside the bedroom door for another kiss.
“Just as well,” Karolina said when he released her, “because if I join the team—”
“When you join the team,” he corrected her, opening the door and walking inside.
“My equine knowledge is confined to riding donkeys at the seaside.”
“Something I intend to put right,” he said as he drew her close.
“Here in Hyde Park?”
Karolina was referring to the famous rides through the equally famous park in central London.“When I’m not competing, I mostly ride in Ireland,” he explained.“I’m going to teach you to ride at my stables on the Curragh near Dublin.”
“The Curragh?”
“It’s from the Irish,” he explained as he dropped kisses on her face and neck.“Cuirreachmeans place of the running horse.”
“Now, you’ve got me.Ireland has always seemed such a magical place.”
“It is.And you shall go to the Curragh, Cinderella—”
“Less of the Cinderella,” she exclaimed, punching his arm.
“Fuck, Lina!You just mended my arm, and now you broke it again.”
“Sorry.Sorry!”Embracing him gently, she brushed her lips against his cheek.“You have to promise to rest this injury.”
“If that’s what you want?”he murmured against her mouth.
“Maybe not right away,” she conceded.
A smiling Karolina was a teasing reminder of how her lips had felt on his body.Talk of the team could wait for a while.
“You are a very bad man,” she observed as he brought her close, seeming pleased about that.
“Would you have me any other way?”
“I’d have you every way,” she whispered.
From there, it was a short step to working out how best to release their pent-up tension.
Buttons flew everywhere.Clothes hit the floor.Karolina scrambled up him.He took her deep.One hand braced against the wall, the other supporting Karolina, he slammed into her while her fingers ground into his butt like a steel vise.
“I need this,” she moaned, tightening her grip.
“You got it.”
There was nothing gentle or tender about it.This was a life-affirming ride to release.
