Mine.The word thundered in my skull.She is mine.
Eva clutched a drink in one hand while the other roamed up her body and into the air. Mia was next to her, dancing and chatting with another pair of girls. I was thankful to see no men were near her, though they certainly stared. I glared at all of them while I slowly stalked up to her, letting my presence alone serve as a threat.
Because they were intelligent and didn’t want to lose their lives to the Reaper, they all looked away.
The blonde girl—one I recognized as Eva’s friend from the ballet, Mia—paused as soon as I stepped behind her, mouth gaping while she eyed me up and down. The other two quickly followed suit, but my Eva kept on dancing, clearly unaware of the dark presence behind her.
I looped my arm around her waist, drawing her against me like a predator claiming its prey. She stumbled but righted herself under my steady grip, body stilling as soon as she fell against me, her back to my chest. Eva shivered when my other hand went to her neck, arching her toward me. I couldn’t resist touching her, grabbing her, making her breath quicken. Every taste of her fed my beast, and he was starving for more of her.
“Sorry,” Mia tried to say, grabbing Eva’s arm and failing to pull her from my grasp. “She’s already got a man.”
“I know,” I purred, and another wave of shivers fell down Eva’s back at the sound of it. She angled her neck enough for me to bend over and suck on her favorite spot, the one that hadn’t yet failed to make her lips part in invitation. “I’m the man.”
Though I appreciated Mia keeping an eye out for my interests. I liked her already.
All of their jaws fell to the floor, but I didn’t care to witness the rest of their reaction, my eyes too mesmerized by Eva’s dilated pupils, her heaving chest, her flushed cheeks. She was apainting of lust, and I wanted to hide the canvas away from the rest of the world.
There was something about the way that her eyes darkened that made her strikingly familiar. Again, a bell rang in the back of my mind, urging me to pay closer attention to her.
“So pretty,” I murmured, running my thumb along her bottom lip.
“Hi,” she whispered, turning fully so she was facing me. She ran her hands along my torso, biting her lip in a way that made me want to rip it from her teeth and slam my cock inside.
“Hi, solnyshka. I heard you missed me.”
She smiled and leaned into me. “I did. You got here quickly.”
“I missed you, too.”
“How badly?” she purred, standing on her tiptoes to kiss the jaw I clenched to keep from taking her to my office.She’s drunk,I reminded myself.You can’t fuck her senselessly tonight.
But God, I wanted to.
I knew I wasn’t the picture of morality, but I wasn’t going to take her virginity while she was impaired. I was a monster, but not that much of one. Plus, there were too many eyes here. Too many people interested in what was mine.
“I’ll show you another time.”
She jutted out her lip. Fuck. My cock hardened in my pants, clearly not getting the memo that my shower was going to be cold. Eva was testing what little control I had.
“Fineeeee,” she whined. “But you owe me.”
Yes. Yes, I did.
I leaned forward, my mouth claiming hers in a heated kiss, my lips pressing every ounce of emotion I felt for her. Lust, infatuation, and perhaps something blooming into more. It was a clash of desire that didn’t feel satiated. She tasted so goddamn sweet. I needed more. I needed to lift her up and feel her against me, needed to take her over and over?—
“Excuse me,” her friend said before we could take this any further, drawing Eva’s doe-eyed gaze and my glare. I looked down at my girl and found her expression dazed, her lips swollen from our savage kiss. It was a look I very much enjoyed on her.
Mia turned to Eva, brow raised. “Thisis Alek?”
“Yes,” Eva said, wrapping an arm around my waist and hugging me in a tight, warm embrace that I didn’t hesitate to return. “Alek, this is my friend, Mia, and some girls she knew in high school.”
“Nice to meet you,” I said, barely nodding in their direction to avoid Eva catching my lie. I wasn’t particularly enjoying our meeting when it meant our kiss getting interrupted.
“Eva, when were you going to tell me that Alek is the most fucking attractive person I’ve ever seen? Oh my God, he ate your entire face off!” Mia tried to come forward and take Eva, but I held onto her tightly.
Like hell they were going to take her away from me. I didn’t care who they were—her family, her friends, fucking God himself. She was mine. Andonlymine.
“I told you Alek looks like my Prince Charming,” Eva said, voice edging on a whine.
