Page 154 of Love Among the Ruins
Because it killed him that he wasn’t the one she wanted. “You’ll hate me if we do this.”
“I’ll hate you if you don’t.”
“You might like me a little more if I behave like a gentleman.”
“I don’t need you to be a gentleman right now.”
He squeezed his eyes shut while his cock screamed obscenities at him. “Eleni...” He was fighting a losing battle.
“Take off your clothes,” she whispered. “I want to see all of you.”
That much he could do. Standing up slowly, trying to make a decision through the fog of his brain, he yanked his shorts down. Her hand flew to her mouth, her eyes on him, wide and hungry. “You’re so ... big and … meaty...”
A smile of pride broke out on his lips. “You’re objectifying me. Not that I object to the description.”
She giggled.
“And, thank you. But are you really that surprised?” A little humor took the edge off his frustration, and he liked the way she was staring at him.
Atit.
She licked her lower lip. “I want you.”
His shoulders sank. “Eleni.” He was her boss, goddamnit.
A boss who was standing in front of her with his cock hanging out, no less.
She chewed her lower lip. “I want you like I haven’t wanted anyone… it’s been so long …”
He believed her. She hadn’t had sex since the tragedy. And if that was what she needed, he was a lucky man that she was begging him to oblige. “I don’t have protection.”
Her gaze was still riveted on his penis, and the more she looked, the more he hardened. Not that it was possible to get any harder. He was so ready. Holding back was like not breathing.
“I have birth control.” Her eyes lifted to his face. “I ... have a heavy cycle and it helps.”
It took a while to sink in, what she was telling him. “You shouldn’t trust me, Eleni.”
Great answer. That would do it. Not.
For a man who was ready to explode the moment he sank inside her, he was doing a good job of trying to put her off.
“But I do.” She licked her lips again. “I trust you. You’ve only ever been good to me, Dominic. You’ve always looked out for me.”
He swallowed. “Then you should know I haven’t been with a woman for nine months.”
“And you should know there has only been Jonas for me.”
I fucking know that.
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ELENI
Anger flashed through Dominic’s already heated gaze. She was trying to get a read on him. His body told her he wanted her. But his face looked like it did when Linus was around.
“Are you sure about this?” The hard edge to his voice cut through her sex-haze enough for her to snap to normality.
“Don’t you want to?” Maybe he needed her to reciprocate. She’d been greedy. She started to sit up, but the flat of his hand settled under her breasts, forcing her back onto the bed.
