Page 66 of Indecent Lies

She was inexperienced not stupid, she recognized lust when she saw it.

And it stole all of her air when he snapped a look at her so boiling hot, every inch of her body came awake for him. Aching for all those dirty things he threw at her.

She didn’t know if they were possible, but she was dying to try and find out.

If he wanted her, why then was it even an issue?

“Did I do wrong?”

“Poppy.” He gusted a great big sigh that sounded unhappy and then shook his head. “No, baby, you didn’t do wrong. I’d be fucking furious if I found out you’d asked some other guy what you asked me.”

Her skin prickled with lovely warmth. “Then what’s the problem?”

A dreaded inkling told her she knew what it was and it started with Add and ended in ginger bitch.

He was still hung up on the girl he couldn’t have.

Coming forward, his bigger body didn’t give her a chance to brace when he flattened her spine to the counter and dwarfed over her.

His thumb pressed to her lips, almost like he didn’t even realize he was touching her. Poppy stood as still as a docile gazelle, barely breathing because the intimate gesture when he pulled down her lower lip was kind of crude but she liked it.

It felt like he was claiming her mouth, as though he was telling her that the mouth he devoured only moments ago belonged to him and no one else.

Maybe she was overthinking, maybe her hormones were barking too loudly.

“I’m so sick of being the good guy.” He rasped, dropping his head. “Always trying to do the right thing. Look where it got me, no family or friends and a little girl offering me her sweet body.”

All her words tumbled around her tongue. “Who said you had to be good? Be yourself.”

“Be myself?” he laughed with so much heat in his eyes, she nearly checked that he hadn’t burned her eyebrows off. She couldn’t look away from his stare, and she was pressing her belly into his without realizing she was doing it until Tait hissed and stepped away.

His arousal was unmistakable.

“If I were myself, you’d be a whole lot more wrecked right now, little girl.”

“What… what do you mean? You’d hurt me?”

She didn’t believe that.

“You’d be fucked against every surface I could press you against. Until you were soaked in me. Until you were no longer the sweet, good girl. You’d be the woman I used over and over until we couldn’t walk and then how would you go back into Harrison and expect people not to see down to your skin and bone how I ruined you.”

Oh.

Oh…

“Tait…” she breathed.

His eyes pinged to hers and she watched his jawline flex rapidly.

“I’m not… I’m not ever going back to Harrison.”

His snarl was back and when he opened his mouth it was to bare his brilliant white teeth. “Oh, yes you fucking are, little girl, if I have to hand deliver you back there myself. This is no life for you.”

His declaration was so vehement in volume that she felt her knees shake and her heart break all over again.

It seemed Tait Hunt was not done breaking what pieces of herself she’d given him.

Poppy was not one for angrily storming out of anywhere.

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