Page 48 of The Darkest Prince

I grab a fistful of her hair and yank her toward me. “I’m here now, Pet.” I lick my lips when our eyes meet. “Now be a good girl and stop acting like an ungrateful brat.”

She scoffs, swats at my hand, and attempts to get out of my grasp. But I love when she squirms and strengthen my hold on her.

“Damian, please.” Alex peeks up at me, tucking her lip into her mouth, and gives me a pouty face. “Don’t be an asshole.”

“You didn’t answer my question, Pet.” I run the pad of my thumb across her lip and breathe in the sweet scent of her perfume. “Did you miss me?”

I know she did.

I want her to say it.

Ineedto hear it.

Her cell phone rings, and she holds my gaze, reaching into her jeans pocket to look at the Caller ID.

It’s her twin brother.

“Lexie, where are you?” I can hear Aiden say on the other end.

I still hate his nickname for her. It doesn’t match Alex at all.

“I’m coming home now, Aid.” She holds the phone against her shoulder, rolling her eyes at me. “Be there in a minute.”

She stuffs the phone into her pocket. “I have to go, Damian. Put me down.”

“No.” I lean into her, our mouths so close that our lips nearly brush. “I drove all the way over here to see you.” I sniff her hair and drink in her delicious scent. She always smells like candy. “I need to touch you. Taste you.”

“Oh, God,” she whispers. “Damian.”

I love when she says my name in that deep but sultry voice. Only Bash makes my cock as hard as she does.

“When was the last time a man made you come?”

I know the answer but want her to confirm it.

She digs her teeth into her bottom lip, staring at my mouth. “I don’t know. I guess when you and Bash touched me in high school.”

“You haven’t been with anyone else?”

My girl shakes her head. “Just you and Bash. And that one time Luca kissed me.”

“Good girl,” I praise, stroking my fingers through her blonde curls. “It will stay that way until we can be together again, understood?”

“Why all the games, Damian?” Alex sighs. “I don’t get it. Why did you leave me? Why haven’t any of you answered my calls, texts, or emails? I wanted to see you for close to three years. And I got nothing.”

I rest my forehead against hers, loving the feel of her skin against mine. It’s been too long since I touched her. Too fucking long since I got to hold my girl and play with her.

“Do you want the truth?”

I can give this to her.

Luca will be mad that I talked to her.

Don’t care.

He can fuck off.

I don’t answer to him.

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