Page 105 of Indulge
“What does that taste like?” she whispers.
I swallow hard. “Like it breaks rules.”
“Exactly.”
I move closer, pressing her back into the counter, my voice low. “Tell me which flavor you want next.”
Her eyes dart to the labels, then back to me. “Sin.”
Of course she picks that one. She is sin.
I open the jar, dip two fingers in, and smear a streak of dark chocolate along her bottom lip.
“Lick.”
She does, eyes locked on mine, and my cock springs to life. My chest tightens. Everything in me screams to stop. Reggie’s name already echoing somewhere between us. But then she leans in, brushing her lips against my jaw, whispering,
“Still think you’re the sweet one, Rowan?”
I laugh softly, a sound that’s half pain, half hunger.
“I’m not sweet for anyone but you, precious.”
Her giggle breaks the tension again. When her gaze flicks down to my mouth again, the air changes.
I take her chin gently, thumb smudging the last of the chocolate from her lip.
“Careful,” I warn, my tone softer now. “You keep looking at me like that, and I’m going to forget the promise I made myself.”
She chews on her lip, tempting me.
“You made me a promise too. One you really shouldn’t break.”
I lightly wrap my hand around her throat, and her breath catches. “And what promise was that?”
The silence after that is electric. Charged. Dangerous.
“That it wouldn’t be the end of us…”
I lean in, voice a whisper against her mouth.
“You still want that? I can break the promise, it’ll fucking rip me apart, but I can let you go if that makes you happier in the long run.”
Relief washes over me when she shakes her head.
“You make me happy,” she breathes out.
My stomach twists. My head and my heart battling. But she owns both.
“But so does my brother,” I say flatly.
“Is that a deal breaker for you? You said you two shared women before. Why not me?”
I let out a breath. Squeezing my hand around her neck tighter, nudging open her thighs with my knee.
“Because, Bella King. They weren’t you. Because not one woman has ever made me envision my future with them. For keeps.”
My lips hover over hers.
