I still, lifting my head so I can meet her gaze, my fingers trailing over the skin I’ve bared, unable tonottouch her. “Did you change your mind?”
 
 “About what?” Her eyebrows are gathered into a tight frown, her eyes slightly glazed, as though she’s struggling to make sense of my question.
 
 “About the kissing.”
 
 Lips parting on a shuddering breath, she shakes her head. “I didn’t change my mind.”
 
 “You want me to kiss you?”
 
 A jerky nod.
 
 I press my lips to her abdomen again. “Here?”
 
 “No,” she whispers. “I mean, yes, but no. Notjustthere.”
 
 I shift, dragging the material up, drawing it over her breasts, exposing her bra. And immediately, I want to forget about teasing, about making it up to her. I want to strip her naked, get my mouth on those tits, and fuck her hard and deep and fast.
 
 “Lace?” I ask, holding tight to my control as I trace a finger along the scalloped edge of her bra.
 
 “It’s pretty,” she murmurs, those tits bouncing because she’s breathing rapidly now. “I like pretty things.”
 
 I grin at her. “Me too.”
 
 Up and down. Up and down. Up and down. I follow the curves along one breast and then the other.
 
 “So,” I say, “about the kissing…”
 
 “Y-yes?”
 
 “Here?” I ask, dragging my finger in, circling one taut bud of her nipple.
 
 “Yes,” she whispers. “And no.”
 
 “I like this game.” I draw the shirt over her head, toss it to the side, then run my fingers along her throat.
 
 “Here?”
 
 A jerky nod, but I see the moment she fully commits to this. Her eyes heat, her lips part, and mischief creeps into her expression. “Yes. But also no.”
 
 I stroke a finger along her jaw, lift my brows in question.
 
 “Yes.” A beat. “No.”
 
 Her ear.
 
 She smiles now. Shakes her head.
 
 Same for her cheeks. Her forehead. Her nose.
 
 “Hmm,” I drawl. “Where am I forgetting?”
 
 “Royal?”
 
 “Yeah, Shortcake?”
 
 But she doesn’t respond—at least not with words. Instead, she threads her fingers through the hairs on my nape and draws my head down.
 
 Our lips meet and before I can take over, she parts my mouth with her lips, slips her tongue into my mouth and lays a kiss on me that’s so intense, I’m seeing stars. Maybe that’s because all the blood in my body is currently in my dick.