Page 44 of Paved in Venom

Threading my fingers through her hair, I kiss her slowly until I’m forced to stop or I’m going to end up fucking her right here on the damn counter. Her fingers caress my cheeks.

“I like this,” she says, unable to stop touching my smooth face.

“Sorry, I sometimes get lazy about shaving.”

“I like you with stubble, too,” she quickly says, making me smile. “You’re a very sexy man, Danil.”

I laugh and lift her off the counter. Cupping her ass, I kiss the top of her head. “And you’re the sexiest woman I’ve ever seen, Simona.”

She laughs like she thinks I’m full of shit, but I’m being completely honest. I start the water, pulling her into the shower with me. It’s pure torture to have her naked and wet and not pick her up and bury myself inside her, but despite the way she’s looking at me, I know she’d feel more comfortable not rushing into sex. I’m also very aware that the last couple of days have been incredibly traumatic. I’m not about to push her into something that she might regret later. I can go as slow as she needs me to. I’d wait forever for her at this point. I can’t imagine being with someone else now. The very idea pisses me off.

After we’re all cleaned up, she puts on another one of my T-shirts, a clean one this time, and when we get upstairs, the intercom buzzes next to the elevator.

“Yeah?” I ask, letting go of the button so I can hear their response.

“Got a bunch of packages down here for Danil Melnikov. Need you to sign for ‘em.”

“Be right down,” I tell him, pushing the button for the elevator.

She hops in with me as soon as the doors open. I run my eyes over her bare legs and the obvious fact that she’s not wearing a bra. When she sees me staring, she crosses her arms over her chest and angles herself so my body is hiding hers.

“They won’t see anything,” she says, looking up at me with a cute smile.

“No, they fucking will not.”

It’s one thing for her to have to walk around in a tiny dress at the club, that’s fucking bad enough, but for delivery men to see her like this? No fucking way. As soon as the doors open, I step in front of her, hiding her completely with my body. Her hand rests on my back as I lean against the door so the elevator will stay open and grab the form the man hands me. I quickly scrawl my name and hand it back to him.

“Need any help?” he asks.

“No, I’ve got it, thanks.”

I hand him a large tip while Simona’s hand slides down and grabs my ass. I bite back a laugh, and as soon as he’s gone, I turn around and pick her up, catching her bottom lip between my teeth. I give her a soft bite while I give her ass a spank.

“Troublemaker,” I whisper against her lips.

She gives a soft shrug. “You have a really nice ass.”

I pull her shirt up, cupping her bare ass in my hands. “So do you, baby.” I let out a groan when I dig my fingers into the soft flesh. “The things I want to fucking do to this ass, sladkaya.”

Her eyes widen at my words. There’s fear there, but there’s also a good bit of lust. I give her a wink and set her back down so I can grab all the boxes. When the elevator is packed, we go back up and then bring it all down to my room. It’s quickly feeling more like our room, especially when I go into the closet and move all my clothes to one side, giving her half the space.

She smiles when she sees what I’ve done and then starts unpacking. While she does that, I grab us some muffins and two mugs of coffee from upstairs. Matvey’s devouring a big bowl of cereal when I walk in.

“All ready for tonight?” he asks in Russian.

“No, not really, but we’re going all the same.”

He watches me fix her mug of coffee just how she likes it before saying, “I know it’s not going to be easy for you to have her around those men. It killed Roman to do it, and I know it’ll do the same to you.”

“She’ll be fine,” I tell him. “I’ll make sure of it, and Vitaly and Lev will be with me.”

“It’s not fair that I’m not doing anything.”

I know it kills him to have to stay behind, but there’s no way for him to fake it when he can’t stand being touched. He won’t be able to tolerate having a woman grind in his lap. I swear to god he’d break her neck before she was even ten seconds into it. No one but Alina touches Matvey. It’s not something he can change.

“You’re not doing shit right now because we’re still at the gathering information stage,” I remind him. “Soon, we’re going to be at the killing stage, and then you’ll be doing more than your fair share.”

He nods but doesn’t say anything.

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