any more than I already have.”
“No problem,” Chloe answers, already in motion as she pecks at her phone. “I gotta call my boss at the tattoo shop anyway. Turns out there’s an emergency he wants me to cover tonight. Ozzy can be a real dick, and I gotta do whatever it takes to make him happy. I’m still under his apprenticeship and can’t afford to blow this. I’ve got a few months left until I can operate my own booth.” She glances up at me long enough to wink. “I’ll wait for you down in the lobby.”
After there’s a click of the front door, Erik turns back to me, his brows stitched. “She talks too fucking much.”
My resolve breaks the moment we lock eyes. I step into him, wrapping my fingers in his tousled locks, and kissing him. His lips are soft, but demanding. He immediately nudges his tongue inside my mouth, devouring me until I’m unsteady on my feet. His flavorful mouthwash bursts against my taste-buds as his tongue massages mine, making me so hot that I’m ready to implode.
Hardly a full minute passes when he hoists me up by my waist and hauls me into his bedroom, slamming me into the mattress with the weight of his body. His full lips possess me with a force so strong I’m sure my own lips will be swollen for hours.
Erik grinds up against me as we kiss, his massively hard package rubbing against my bare leg through the coarse material of his shorts. When I realize just how large he must be, I moan softly against his mouth. One of Erik’s hands darts up my shirt, his long fingers teasing the exposed tops of my breasts.
My desire kicks into over drive when I imagine him naked and inside of me, filling me to my core. I reach for his shirt and begin to unbutton it, shivering in delight with the feel of his sculpted muscles beneath my fingertips. A deep hum vibrates from his throat just before he intensifies the kiss. He reaches back to slip his hand beneath my shorts and underwear, cradling my bare ass cheek.
He stops kissing me to press his lips against my ear, his breath hot against my skin. “Here’s what’s going to happen. I’m going to climb off you now, and you’re going to strip naked for me.”
Stunned by the unexpected dominance, I suck in a deep breath. Trailing kisses down my neck, he backs away, watching me with a dangerous fire behind his eyes. He towers over me like some kind of freaking mythical god with his gorgeous chest exposed, all tanned and muscular. I don’t break the connection our stare as I reach down to unbutton my shorts. My body tingles excitedly with what’s to come.
Then for some ungodly reason that I’ll forever live to curse upon, I picture the disappointment in my best friend’s eyes when she hears I’ve slept with the only person she’s ever warned me to steer clear of. I may as well be dunked in a bathtub filled with ice water.
“Shit.” I drop my hand to cradle my head. “I can’t do this. It’s a really bad idea.”
“Ideas are only bad if you don’t want them, and who are you kidding?” He continues staring down on me, his heated gaze unrelenting and oh, so seductive. “You know you want me.”
Clicking my tongue, I slide off the bed and straighten my disheveled shirt. “Wow. Conceited much?”
“I only say things if they’re true. You want me, and I want you, so what’s the problem?” Damn it, the way he’s so confident makes his sex appeal shoot off the charts. And the enormous bulge in his pants hasn’t subsided any.
Shit .
I’m the poster girl for flustered as I stumble out into the hallway. My head and vagina are on two separate stratospheres, both vying for my complete attention.
“The problem is that your brother and Jewels told me to stay away from you! And I already told you this thing between us isn’t going to happen! I don’t need to get into a complicated relationship where I wonder if I have to fuck you in order to have a place to live!”
“Who said anything about a relationship? We’re
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