“You’re the biggest ray of sunshine in my corner of darkness, Luna,” I explain, and her cheeks redden with the flattery. My eyes drift anywhere but in her direction, the words I spoke feeling cliché but honest.
She slides off the stool and walks up to me. I look down at her, her up at me. She wraps her arms around me and like a lit candle my flame of anxiety is snuffed and I relax into her. Why am I so relaxed around her?
She lays her head on my chest and I raise my hand to cup her head. The feeling of her touching me still so foreign, but I like it too. It’s hard for me to explain.
“You can teach me to shoot a gun,” she mumbles.
Inhaling sharply, my fingers in her wet hair, I know I’m not going to win this one. I’m going to take down the trafficking ring, and she’s going to be by my side. I’ll need a crew, one that isn’t up my father’s ass.
“Yeah. Yeah, I can,” I reply. My hands slide down her back, pushing her into me more, the feel of her perky nipples pressing against my chest. I can’t help the hardness of my cock, I want her. I want her real fucking bad.
But I’ll jerk myself off a million times before pushing Luna into something she’s not ready for. I’ll wait. For her.
“Today, we lie around and I put something into motion,” I tell her. She pushes away from me ready to object and I cut her off.
“You need to learn to trust me if we are doing this.” My tone grim.
You can’t do a simple job without loyalty, let alone something as massive as the one we’re about to walk into. She closes her mouth and nods. Flicking my finger under her chin, I push her mouth where I want it, lean down and kiss her again. She closes her eyes and I pick her up, her legs wrapping around me. Deepening the kiss, I groan into her mouth. My now hard cock presses against the bottom of her ass, and I desperately want to move the silk of her robe to the side and slip into her heat. I need her off me. I need space before I make a move and scare her away.
I pull my lips from hers, my head resting against hers.
“I’m not going any further until you say the words, Flower.” My words come out strangled and desperate.
She unwraps her legs from my body, her feet slipping to the floor.
“Thank you,” she whispers. She doesn’t say anything else about the matter though. She looks toward the window, biting her bottom lip.
See, she’s not ready and that’s okay.
“I’m going to call my brother, Kieran. He’ll know who in the crew I can trust. Why don’t you go get dressed and find us a movie to watch in the meantime?” I tell her.
Her eyes snap to mine, she nods and starts to walk toward the guest bedroom but stops. “Oh, can we get more of that Chinese stuff, especially those ragoony things?”
I bite back a grin. “Yeah, I’ll order us some.” I hope that when this is all over with, she still has the glow in her that she has today. This job is going to be dirty, and people are going to die. It’s a life not meant for everyone.
When she disappears around the corner, I go to my room in search of my cell phone. This is the first job I’m putting into motion without Kieran, but he knows the crew better than anyone. I text Kieran to come over. It’s better that I talk to him in person than over the phone about the matter. Besides, having my brother around will help get my head out of Luna’s ass.LunaLying on the couch in some yoga pants and a tank, I bite into another ragoon as we watch Single White Female, I picked it. Romeo sits on the other couch in a pair of sweats, I catch him staring at me every once in a while and every time my heart quickens when our eyes meet. My body wants him, it does. When he touches me, my skin heats at first then a delicious tingle follows. I never wanted to be touched by another man after the last guy touched me wrongfully. Some fat political figure with blocky hands. The burn of that man’s hands scorched my skin in a different kind of way, but the more I’m around Romeo, the more my body overcomes my mind and I want him to get closer, to take me to a world I only fantasized about.
A knock on the door has me freeze mid-chew. I look to Romeo, and his lips curl up in that sexy way that he does.