chin and tilted it up. “Come on, babe. You can trust me. Show me yours, I’ll show you mine.”
Her eyes flew back to his. Had he seen what she worked so hard to hide? No, he couldn’t have. “What do you mean? Show you what?”
Again, he didn’t answer right away, just stared into her eyes. And she couldn’t look away because she’d already made him more curious than was safe.
Her mouth opened, as if she was actually going to spill her guts. She closed it just as fast. She couldn’t. Her freedom, her life depended on keeping her secret.
And even though every bone in her body knew she could trust him, she didn’t want to put him in danger.
His eyes narrowed. “Lacey, are you in some kind of trouble?”
Tinia’s teat, could the man read her mind? Or was she just that transparent?
She tried a smile but found she couldn’t hold it in the face of his steady gaze.
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Would it kill her to tell him?
Well, yeah, it could. If too many people knew her secret. If it got back to the wrong people. She’d been free for the past year. They hadn’t caught up with her. She’d allowed herself to think maybe they wouldn’t come after her after all this time.
But she couldn’t allow herself to grow complacent. Or to trust anyone but herself.
She knew what Teo’s older brothers and Rio did for a living. She knew they provided protection for the Fata and Enu . Every member of the Etruscan community respected the hell out of them.
She knew, if she told them everything, they would give their lives if need be to keep her safe. And that was a very real possibility because the men who’d held her captive for nearly ten years had killed anyone who got in their way. Including her parents.
“Lacey?”
His voice, deep and concerned, drew tears to her eyes. She hadn’t cried in years.
She wasn’t about to cry now.
Instead, she leaned up and kissed him. And to her relief, he let her.
She closed her eyes, shut off her brain and sank into the dark, spicy taste of him.
This time, he let her kiss him. Let her move her mouth over his, slide her tongue inside and play with his.
Teo clamped down hard on his immediate reaction to flip her on her back, stretch her arms above her head and take her again.
He’d always been a dominant sexual partner. It was just the way he was wired.
Light bondage, a little pain, a woman’s complete submission—they made him burn in ways vanilla sex never could.
Before the amentia , he’d sought out females who enjoyed submission, enjoyed being tied down, spanked and fucked hard, vaginally and anally.
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After…well, he’d had to temper his desires so he didn’t go too far. Didn’t hurt his partner. He’d had to hold back.
He didn’t like holding back with Lacey. He sensed that Lacey wasn’t a stranger to what he liked but he also sensed she was hiding something from him. Something related to sex. And that made him wary.
So he let her play with him, let her kiss him while her fingernails made teasing strafing runs down his chest to his stomach then to the base of his cock. His shaft thickened again as the amentia simmered in his gut, whispering that once he had her on her back, she wouldn’t complain.
His hands lifted but he forced them to cup her head, weave his fingers through her hair loosely and let her lead.
She kissed him with a lazy thoroughness, as if she’d never done it before and it fascinated her. Her thoroughness sure as hell fascinated him. He felt like she kissed him for at least a half hour, sliding her tongue in and out of his mouth while her hands roamed his body.
He barely realized his hands had moved to her ass until he felt her bare mound press against his hip and her moisture dampen his skin. One hand instinctively moved toward her pussy, craving the silken feel of her.
But she broke the kiss and tsked, her eyes slits of amused blue and her mouth curved in a grin. “I didn’t say you could move your hands, Mr.