Page 39 of Secrets & Desires
PartThree
ChapterSixteen
Livia was worriedabout Nox’s state of mind for the next few days and although he told her he was making good progress with Dr. Feldstein, he looked drawn and tired. Livia comforted the best way she could, spending all her spare time with him, talking, making love andhanginout.
Soon though, she felt unable to cheer him and asked him if he would like Amber to comeseehim.
“Amber’s outoftown.”
It was Livia’s turn to look surprised. “Sheis?”
“Yeah,why?”
She shrugged. “It’s just, youneversaid.”
“Should I have?” Nox smiled at her, his expression a littleconfused.
“No, I guess not.” Livia brushed it off but she wondered why Nox knew exactly where Amber was at any one time and why it bothered hersomuch.
Nox was studying her. “She wanted to get away because Pia’s murder dragged up bad memories, sweetheart. Nothing insidious. I thought you likedAmber?”
“I do, very much,” she reassured him, but something felt off to her. Why would Amber desert her best friend at a time like this? Even if it did bring up memories of her sister’s murder, why wouldn’t she want to be around the people she was closest to? Livia felt her skin prickle with unease. What did she really know about these people and how theyoperated?
“Areyouokay?”
She nodded. “Actually, I’m pretty bushed, but I have to practice for the recital. Do you mind if I use your mother’sstudio?”
“It’s your studio now, baby, and of course. Would you like somealonetime?”
“If you don’t mind,” she smiled to soften the blow, “otherwise I’ll be distracted by your gorgeous body. I’ll make it up to youlater.”
Nox grinned, his whole face lighting up, and Liv felt a frisson of desire go through her. “I’ll hold youtothat.”
At the piano,she ran through her composition again and again, concentrating on the finer details of it. She wondered if it even counted as jazz now, it was so slow and almost classical in its melody. Charvi had assured her that it still had its roots in her favoritegenre.
“It’s very New Orleans jazz,” she had told Livia at their last tutorial. “Slow, sensual, laissez-faire. It’s almost listless in its sexuality, as if, yes, you desire this man, but just being with him, beingstillwith him isenough.”
And it was true, Livia did love just being with Nox, even if they were napping on his couch or reading together, his head on her stomach. Or justbeing. Being in the moment with Nox felt sonatural.
Maybe that’s why this thing is freaking you out,she told herself.It’s all a bittooeasy, as if I’m waiting for the other shoetodrop.
She moved her fingers over the keys again and again, and when after an hour or two, she heard the music room door open, she smiled to herself. She had her eyes closed, practicing the chords as she felt his fingers sweep her hair back from her shoulder and his lips against her neck. She continued to play as he unbuttoned her dress slowly, stroking the skin of her back, then trailing his lips down her spine. Livia shivered, closing her eyes as Nox chuckled, a deep sound from the back of histhroat.
“Keep playing,beautiful.”
Livia giggled softly as he lifted her and slid underneath her, perching her on his lap as he began to peel her dress away from her shoulders. Livia managed to keep playing the melody as he stripped her to the waist. She wiggled against his groin, feeling his cock long and hard against her buttocks. Nox nibbled at her earlobe as he caressed her bare breasts. “You want meinside?”
She nodded, turning her head to kiss his mouth. Nox gently closed the piano lid and set her on top of the piano, removing the rest of her clothes. Livia kissed him as hestripped.
With him seated on the piano stool, he lifted her on top of him. Livia took his cock in her hand, marveling at the thick, hot length of it, and then guided him inside of her, moaning softly as he filled her. They rocked together, eyes locked on the other’s, their mouths hungry as theykissed.
“God, I love you,” Nox growled as their lovemaking became more intense. He swept her onto the floor and began to thrust hard as she wrapped her legs around him. The sensations he was sending through her body were intoxicating and she forgot all of her earlier irritation and misgivings, giving herself to himentirely.
Nox, knowing he had command of her body, smiled down at her as he drove her towards orgasm. “You and me forever, Livvy.Promiseme.”
“I promise,god, yes.I promise…Nox…” Her back arched up and she felt him climax as she gasped through her own ecstasy, pumping thick, creamy cum deep inside her. Livia panted for air, laughing and telling him how much she loved him as they collapsed to thefloor.
Nox smothered her in kisses, making her giggle, and then started to blow raspberries on her stomach, tickling her sides. Livia shrieked with laughter, twisting and turning to escape him. She turned on her side—then gasped as she saw it. At the window of the mansion, afigure.
