Page 127 of All at Once

“Great.” I scoff nervously. “So you would have kissed me that night if I wasn’t drunk?”

“I feel a little guilty for admitting it, but if you want to know the truth…yes.” Luca brushes his thumb across my chin so softly that I wonder how I feel it between my legs that are suddenly screaming over such a simple touch.

I challenge, “Show me how you would’ve done it that night.”

I swear his eyes just turned three shades deeper.

As the music picks up again, he leans forward.

His hand moves behind my head before I realize what he’s doing. I feel his fingers slide down my hair tie, slowly pulling it out of my long hair without leaving my eyes the entire time.

Never in my entire life would I have imagined a guy taking a hair tie out of my hair would stir this much arousal in me and yet—

When my hair falls down to my sides, Luca takes both of his hands and places them behind my neck, underneath my hair. I feel his fingers clasp onto my hair, gripping my waves like an anchor, comfortably, yet so consumingly, that my lips part open with desire. Which is perfect, considering how he immediately pulls mytop lip against his bottom lip as his fingers graze across my sensitive jaw and ears.

He’s moving his lips the same way that sends chills down my back, the way they cling onto mine as if heneedsthem between his. But this time it’s more urgent.Wilder.

I still can’t quite put it into words how he does it, other than I feel his kiss in my entire body andnotjust on my lips.

As my lips part even further, he slips his tongue slightly into my mouth, but noticeably more than before. Between his tongue and the way his arms are roaming down my back, a stronger moan vibrates off my mouth and into his, when I hear him groan. The sound is unlike anything I’ve heard. Full oflonging.Desire. Andself-control. And it travels straight to my chest, when I feel my nipples tighten against my dress, his discipline, again, turning me on even more.

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Once we reach our floor, I immediately pull Luca by his unbuttoned shirt collar and into my suite, while he grins into my lips at my newfound behavior.

It’s as if we’re both consumed with a surplus of adrenaline, energy, andlust. So much so that both of us don’t quite knowwhatto do with it. The electricity is so palpable that if he were to just touch the end of my finger with his, we’d both probably feel a sting.

As he sits down on the couch with his arms spread out while leaning back, I gasp at how overwhelming yet satisfying this feels.

Although just looking at him like this is lighting me on fire, I’m reminded of what he said earlier, and only think it’s fair to be alittlepolite in return.

So while I’m standing a few feet away from him, I coyly ask, “We could take it slow if you want? I’d personally prefernotto, but—”

Luca scoffs, before pulling me toward him and lifting me right onto his lap so that my legs straddle his waist.

He leans in. “You were saying?”

“I don’t really rememberwhatI was saying.”

All he does is continue to glance at me with the smuggest expression. “If you’re going to keep undressing me with your eyes, the least you could do is make sure I’m not watching.”

“I thought guysliketo watch?” I play with his collar.

He looks down at my hands. “Not when it’sthisdistracting.”

“In what ways?” I ask innocently as I meet his eyes.

He bites down on his bottom lip. “Trust me. You don’t wanna know.”

“And what if I do?”

“Maybe I’ll tell you some other time.”

I grip his shoulders tightly when I feel his lips press against my neck, noting this is the first time he’s kissing me there. My forehead crinkles so deeply that I almost whimper when his sighs echo over my skin.

Each new spot he kisses me, I find myself feeling things I didn’t quite know existed. Not like this. The heat curling up my stomach is now roaring through my hips, his rising chest guiding me like a compass.

I tilt my head to the side, giving him more access as his tongue also touches my skin. I can’t hold in the moan that’s been building inside me any longer when I hear him groan. “Fuck. It should be illegal to smell this good,” Luca says, his voice breathy.

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