He smiled back at her, and then it slipped away. “I planned to tell you this before we had sex, so you would know what you were getting involved with, but…”
“But I wouldn’t let you.”
“I could have stopped what happened between us. Ishouldhave stopped it.”
“You tried to warn me, but I wouldn’t listen, and I’m glad I didn’t. I would have made the same choice. I wanted to have sex with you as badly as you did with me… well, maybe you wanted it alittlebit more. You did have five hundred years of backup going on in there, but I’ve been dreaming and fantasizing about you since I first saw you. What happened between us was inevitable, and so worth it. I wouldn’t change a thing.”
Declan was torn between wanting to laugh and rising desire as her words caused his dick to stir. “There wasn’t five hundred years of backup.”
“Ah, so a little self-pleasure was allowed.”
“It was.”
“And did I ever cross your mind during those times?” she asked.
“You’ve been the star of the show since I first met you.”
She smiled as she leaned toward him. “I’ll tell you a little secret.”
“And what is that?”
“You’ve been the star of the show since I first met you too. Late at night, I’d think of you while I was lying in bed, running my hands down my breasts, over my belly, and between my thighs.”
Red flashed through his eyes as he licked his lips, and his eyes fell on her breasts. She was aware her hardened nipples were evident against the shirt, and while his eyes remained on them, she ran her fingers along the underside of her breast.
She relished in the growl he released. When he rose from the chair, her mouth went dry as she recalled his hands on her, his body against hers, and the way he possessed her so completely.
“Do you have any other secrets?” he asked as he prowled toward her. “Any things in your past you prefer to keep hidden?”
She was trying to remember how to breathe, let alone any memories, but if he wanted secrets, she would give them to him. “When I was twelve, I broke my brother Julian’s computer and blamed it on the dog. It was an accident, but I knew he would be pissed at me.”
“Is that all?” he inquired as he stopped before her, and she turned in the chair to face him.
He wasn’t touching her, but her skin tingled all over, and wetness spread between her thighs. When her gaze fell on his jeans, the swollen evidence of his erection almost made her whimper with need.
“At fifteen, my friend’s boyfriend kissed me, and I let it go on longer than I should have,” she said. “I couldn’t stand him.”
“Then why did you let it continue?”
“Because it was my first kiss.”
“And you were curious.”
“Verycurious.”
She reached for him, but he caught her wrists and pulled them back until her hands rested against the back of the chair and he was leaning over her. His gaze burned into her as a fang glinted in the light.
“Just like you were curious about me and how I could make you feel,” he said.
She thrilled at his power and dominance over her body. She’d never given up control to anyone before, but she did with him.
“Yes,” she said. “And it was so worth it. No one has made me come as hard as you did.”
Declan couldn’t suppress a snarl at the reminder there were other men in her past. She could calm him so easily, but if those men were standing before him, he would kill them all without a second’s hesitation. However, it didn’t matter how many were before him; there would be no one after him, and there would be no one after her.
“What other secrets do you have, Willow?”
Though her hands remained pinned against the chair, she used the index finger of her right hand to wave him a little closer. When his head was only inches from hers, she turned and rested her mouth against his ear.
