He started to walk away, and I stood up. “Wait, Nik. The guy in my room,” I said, and he turned back to look at me, his eyebrows pulling into a V. “Can you get rid of him for me.”
We stared at each other for several seconds in silence as he considered whether or not to help me. I’d just given up on the idea and was about to throw a tirade of abuse his way when he nodded.
“Sure, come on.” Nik jerked his head and I followed until we reached my doorway.
I was too tired to be dealing with one-night stands and the wholecan I have your number, can I see you again, blah blah nonsense. It was always the same. I just wanted to shower and eat and go get a suntan to rival the girls that just left my condo.
“Work with me,” Nikolai said with a grin and I frowned unsure of what he was going to do. He pushed open my door, glancing in to see the naked guy on my bed and he looked back with a smirk before taking a step towards me.
Nik pushed his hand into the back of my hair and pulled my body close to his, his forehead pressing against mine. He stole the breath from my lungs as he leaned in and kissed me hard, and I couldn’t stop myself from groaning against his lips, my hands automatically going to his shoulders and the guy in my bed was completely forgotten.
I was tired and hungover, and I put that down to why I was letting him kiss me. Why I was kissing him back, and why my nipples had hardened, desperate for his mouth to latch on to them.
Nik pulled me into the bedroom, our mouths still connected as we backed up towards the bed. My legs hit it and he lay me down and it was only then that I remembered that there was another man in my bed and I had no idea what Nik was thinking of.
“Erm…” the guy, whose name I hadn’t even bothered to ask for sat up and Nik pulled out of the kiss and glared up at him. There was a moment of shocked silence as Nik and the guy stared at one another and then Nik stood up straight.
“Who the fuck is this?” he roared, sounding more furious than I’d ever heard him before. He looked between me and the guy, his eyes dark and dangerous and something about it shot straight to my core.
“Nik?” I said his name, unsure what was going on as the guy scooted out of my bed and began stumbling around the room in search of his clothes.
“I go out for one night and you bring another guy home? Are you fucking kidding me?” he roared.
The guy dived out of my bed; his hands held up in surrender. “I’m sorry, I had no idea.”
“Katya? Where’s my fucking gun?” he yelled, making a show of looking around the room dramatically.
Mr. Average Fuck ran past Nik and out of the room, and Nik stormed after him. The guy was already running through the condo front door and I sat up, pulling my dressing gown tighter around me with a satisfied smirk.
“I’ll fucking kill you!” Nik yelled after the guy from the doorway. “You stay the fuck away from my wife or you’re a dead man.”
His wife?
Where the hell had that come from?
The door slammed shut and I moved to the doorway as Nik stalked back across the condo towards me, a huge grin on his face and his bed hair flopping over one eye. I grinned back, not caring that Mr. Average Fuck would have to figure out by himself how to get a boat to take him across to the mainland. I guess he could always hitch a ride with Nik’s conquests.
“Thanks.” I almost felt a little bad in that moment about putting on such an over-the-top act last night with my moaning and screaming, especially since I’d given my one night stand the nickname Mr. Average Fuck.
“You’re welcome.”
We stared at each other in silence for a moment, the lingering kiss still tingling on my lips. “You didn’t even tell him I had a disease,” I laughed, trying to lighten the tension between us.
What was happening?
Nikolai shrugged. “I didn’t need to.”
“Why’s that?” I asked, still smiling, still feeling the delicious tension curling between us like electric tendrils.
Nikolai chuckled and started to walk away. “I say shit like that to keep men away from you, Katya, and that particular pussy,” he pointed towards the door to drive his words home, “isn’t going anywhere nearthatpussy again.” He pointed towards where I was currently squeezing my thighs together in an effort not to be turned on by him.
Nik gave me one last serious look before stalking back into his own room and closing the door. I stared after him shocked, confused and incredibly turned on.
What was going on with me today? Did they put something in my cocktail last night that stopped me being immune to Nikolai’s charms?
I slammed the door shut on my own bedroom and sat on the edge of the bed, my fingers involuntarily touching my mouth. His kiss had felt different today. Not like all the other times where we’d teased and taunted each other. It felt...real. Like he’d meant it.
I thought back to last night when we’d been dancing. How in sync our bodies had been and how good it had felt to have his hands on me. I hated that I was curious. I hated that I wanted to know what it would be like to let go with him. To really let him in.
