She narrowed her eyes. Flicked her gaze down to my lips. I wasn’t supposed to do this. My god, I wasn’t supposed to do this, but I couldn’t stop it. I heard a gasp slip out of my lips as she pressed in closer, barely an inch between us, and whispered without taking her eyes off mine. “You’re a smart woman,” she said. “I think you can figure it out.”
“Maybe I want you to spell it out.”
“Maybe I will,” she said, and she tightened her grip on my arm, shoved me back against the wall, and I moaned involuntarily, the sound breaking out of my lips in surprise—heat raced through me at the sudden fantasy coming vividly true, Jade’s strong grip holding me in place, shoving me backagainst the wall. “You’renotgoing home with Abby,” she growled, eyes flashing.
“Are you going to stop me?”
“If you give me half a chance.”
“Here’s half a chance right now,” I said, and she gripped me tighter.
“For fuck’s sake, Alyssa,” she said, and she kissed me.Kissed mewasn’t the right term—she claimed me, shoved her lips into mine and took what she wanted from me, and I felt it through every part of my body, moaning against her lips as they ravaged mine. My knees buckled, but she stepped in closer and pinned me into the wall, holding me steady as she tilted her head to kiss me better—it wasn’t a delicate kiss, not a pretty kiss, but a hungry thing, devouring me. I couldn’t do this. Not now, not like this. But I couldn’t stop myself, and my body met her just as eagerly as she was taking me, slipping my hands to her back and kissing her back, parting my lips against the heat of her kiss.
She pulled back through heavy, heady breathing, her eyes half-lidded as she held me in place, and she spoke in a low rasp. “If you don’t tell me to stop right now—”
“I won’t.”
“Jesus Christ, Alyssa,” she breathed, and she bent down and kissed my neck, sensation coursing up and flooding through me. I moaned—loud—thank god the music was so loud, or the whole terrace above us would have heard me, the way I was moaning and whimpering for her. The way I’d beenneedingher, suddenly all spilling out, my body quivering. Her lips moved, kissing down to my collar, the tops of my breasts, and back up to my jawline before she met my lips again, pinning me into the wall and having her way with me. I’d never felt anything likethisbefore—the waywantcoalesced like a hot liquid I could feel physically filling me up and burning me from the inside.
I needed to stop. I’d promised Daniela. This was wrong. But I couldn’t possibly stop, not when I was getting everything I wanted, everything I needed.
I needed her now. Needed Jade.
Silently, somewhere in the back of my mind, I whispered an apology to Daniela, and briefly, just for now, I forgot that I’d ever known her.
Chapter 20
Jade
Every part of this was wrong. Sure as hell didn’t feel wrong, though.
I was in so deep for Alyssa, wanted her in every way, and it was obvious she just wanted me casually. A smarter woman would back away, protect her peace. I wasn’t a smarter woman. Not when Alyssa was giving me thatfuck-melook and teasing me, asking me what I’d do with her once I got her away from Abby.
My body had been the one to answer. I pressed myself up against her, kissing her like I was starving and she was my only relief, and she moaned when I pushed her up against the wood plank wall behind her, the thumping music upstairs drowning out the noises she made.
“Alyssa…” I whispered against her lips, breaking off to kiss along her jawline. Moved my hand down to her waist, where the swell of her hip was impossibly enticing under my fingertips.
“Jade?” she gasped, her body arching under me.
I didn’t even know how to say what I needed to say. My body went ahead of me working on saying it for me, my hand slipping down and bunching up her skirt to reach under, fingertips on the bare skin of her leg, and she went wide-eyed,nodding breathlessly. “God, I need this so fucking badly,” I growled. “Seeing you fucking grinding all over Abby…”
I caressed my hand up higher, up her thigh, up to the line of her underwear, and I slipped a finger under the hem. “Oh, god, Jade,” she whispered, her legs wobbling. “Are you… here…?”
Was I?Here?I wasn’t one for being risky with it, but I couldn’t possibly imagine waiting long enough to get somewhere else. Not to mention, I didn’t know what else we could do—I wasn’t going to dine and dash and disappear with Alyssa in the middle of everything. “I don’t want to wait one fucking second longer.”
“Jesus Christ, that’s the hottest thing I’ve heard in my life,” she moaned, rolling her head back against the wall. “Please take whatever you want. Oh my god.”
I couldn’t tell her how badly I really did want her, how serious and deep this thing in my chest was, and it ached all through me seeing how beautiful she was—how seriously fucking gorgeous she was, the most perfect person I’d seen in my fucking life, but this wasn’t a romantic thing. This was that Alyssa wanted to have a good time tonight. She was planning on getting it with Abby. I should have let her. But if I was the one who got to have it with her, I’d make sure she got everything she’d ever wanted.
“Stay quiet,” I whispered in her ear, pressing up next to her as I teased my fingers over her thigh, along the edge of her underwear. “We can’t have anyone coming after us…”
She bit her lip, nodding with a hazy look in her eyes. Big blue eyes that made me want to cry with how perfect she was. Jesus Christ, what a great way to wrap up my time in this town. Getting to touch and pleasure the most beautiful woman in the world.
“Fuck, you’re gorgeous,” I whispered, more than I meant to say, and she ducked her head, blushing harder through a hazy smile.
“You too…”
I kissed her to swallow up the noise as I pulled her underwear down and slipped my hand between her thighs, and she moaned softly against me as I felt the burning heat of her core, slick and wet over my fingertips. She arched her hips against me, moaning quietly into my lips, and I broke off the kiss just enough to whisper, my lips brushing hers.
