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Did it lad to hear that? Somehoas minimal validation that Kennedy hadn’t been with another man Absurd conclusion, but I wanted that truth I wanted her untouched Unloved I wanted her free to be mine

The bell dinged and the doors retracted

“You can put on an offended act for the staff that you don’t want to go upstairs with oosebumps on her flesh when I whispered in her ear “Or you can do what you and I both know you want Step in the elevator”

Her eyes flashed to mine “I don’t take orders froer have to submit”

My hand curled around her wrist I pressed e that for one night, couldn’t you?” I winked I thought she was going to slap me, but she wrenched her hand free and marched into the elevator

“Are you co?” She eyed me

Without saying a word, I joined her, turning the key inside the elevator

I had planned strawberries dipped in chocolate A second bottle of expensive chainal claw-foot tub with scalding water Bubbles Candles Roses Pulling out all the stops But every fucking plan went out the hen alked in that suite

The door closed and the world became ours

Kennedy spun and I took herSlow Her ue probed, rele withthe taste of her The beauty of her I nipped behind her ear, trailing her throat back to herBrutal But as the predator and as the prey?

My fingers dug into her shoulders, rotating her toward the wall Her palan to drag her dress to her hips Her skin was covered in gooseburinned My mouth covered her ear, the side of her neck, the softness of her shoulders

“Knight,” she rasped

I felt the heat between us The undeniable cheers dug into her exquisite curves She mewed and I wondered if it was possible to end up on my knees before I even carried her to the bed

She did things to s She’d haunted ued me with promises of what could have been Another life A richer life A co each other senseless

Tonight, could drown out the mistakes of the past I would make sure it did There would be no question to permanent on each other’s souls