The green eyes are fighting to stay open, strictly so they can continue staring up atme. It’s kinda weird, and hot, which is obviously my thing.
“Mmm…Ari,” he sighs the name. “She’s new. Been coming around for a few weeks. Delicious, right?”
Uh, yea.My mouth is literally watering.
“Who brought her?” My head slants, eye-fucking the way they’rebody-fucking that tasty morsel to dust right now. “Soren?”
“Nah… I’m not sure, actually.” Linetti shrugs.
He seems much less interested in where she came from than where she’sgoing.
To Mars, from the look of it…
He jabs me in the arm. “You going in for round two?”
I can’t say I’m not tempted, honestly. And denying myself temptations has never really been my strong suit. It’s how I ended up with a mouthful of cavities as a kid.
But I mean… forthat?I think I’d happily lie back and take the drilling.
I sip again, then thrust the bottle at Linetti. “Yea right. That’s not the type of meal you eat family style.”
He laughs while I watch Reyes holding Ari up, her tongue sneaking out to lap the head of his dick, almost innocently. I wink at her.
No, no. You deserve to be savored, don’t you, sweet thing?
Linetti is inching closer to the human pyramid when I catch movement out the corner of my eye. My face whips just in time to catch the tail-end of a shadowy figure slinking past the doorway.
Muscles all over me tense, my stomach twisting in both unease and illicit thrill I absolutelyhate… Because it has control over me. It forces my feet to move, bringing me out into the corridor which leads to the other library.
This mansion has two libraries. Probably more, but on the ground level, there are two—one on our side, and one on his, connected by a hallway. There are a few other rooms in between… The kitchens are like a buffer between the two sides. This home is every bit of a maze as the prison.
Unsurprisingly, I think I know my way around the prison better.
Peering around the corner, I check for any sign that he was here, half expecting him to be standing out there, ready to scold me for being so easily lured into the lascivious activitieshesponsors. It’s hypocritical as fuck, but it definitely happens.
But tell me why the prospect of it is making me harder than watching that gem-eyed doll being taken for a ride.
I make it about four steps in his direction when I force myself to an aggressive halt. Leaning up against the wall, I close my eyes, banging my head on it a few times.
Stupid. You’re stupid, andweak, and fucking desperate, and it’s pathetic.
With a growl, I turn around and storm back to our side, with the degenerates.
Where I belong.
I’m not doing this tonight.
Back in the library, I don’t stop. Rather, I continue on, because as tempting as the new toy is, just like creeping over to the other side like I’m magnetized to bad decisions, I know it’s not what I really want.
And there’s something evenlouderbeckoning to me from upstairs.
I cast one last lingering look in Ari’s direction, and find her still watching me. Deep green eyes holding a secret message we’re sharing in this moment.
I don’t want to be with you… I want tobeyou.
What she’s getting…That’swhat I want.
But from my own green-eyed temptation.
