She blinked and went quiet. Then she said softly, “You didn’t answer my question.”
“You ask a lot of them,thissie.”
“Seerin.”
I liked my name on her lips too much. “Because sex can be complicated and it was easier not to take analukkiri.”
“But…” she trailed off, her gaze dropping. It drove me to madness when she grew shy, because it was not a word I would ever use to describe her. This was thekalleswho’d shamelessly peeked into the common bathingvoliki, after all. “But you want to have sex with me.”
I growled. “You wish to talk about sex,thissie?”
My cock throbbed at the thought and I swallowed past the thick lump in my throat.
“You know I’m untried, Seerin, don’t you?”
A virgin.
My nostrils flared. I hadn’t known for certain, but I had my suspicions.
“You said you were immune to desire,” I rasped. The corner of my lip curled slightly. “Immune to me.”
Her face heated. “I said that because I didn’t trust you then.”
I stilled. “You trust me now?”
She blinked twice before she said softly, “Yes, I believe I do.”
I didn’t know if her words made me feel elated or disturbed. How could she trust me after what I’d done to her?
“I don’t think any female could be completely immune to you,” she added quietly.
I inhaled a long, slow breath through my nostrils.
“I don’t know if I’m ready for sex yet,” she said. “But I do know that I like when you kiss me. I like how you make me feel and I know I want more.”
I licked my bottom lip. My body reacted to her words like she’d just whispered the filthiest things in my ear.
“Lysi?” I growled.
“Yes,” she whispered, holding my eyes.
“There is so much that I can show you,thissie,” I told her.
Her lips parted. I could see her burning curiosity. Curiosity I would assuagethoroughlyonce she was ready. My female was curious about sex and that knowledge was almost my undoing.
“That Iwillshow you,” I promised.
Her eyes caught on the washing cloth draped over the edge of the bathing tub. I reached out to take it before holding it to her, raising a brow, a challenge in my gaze.
One thing I was learning about mythissiewas that she never backed down from a challenge.
My dark grin formed when she took the cloth from my grip.
Chapter Twenty-Two
“Tell me about how you came to be on Dakkar,” Seerin requested, as if he knew I needed a distraction as I dipped the cloth under the water and touched it to his bare skin.
I was thankful for the change in subject given the way my pulse was fluttering in my throat.
