Page 97 of Wicked Enemy

When the last tremors had faded, Levi remained standing there with his cock buried deep inside me for a while. I used the time to catch my breath and try to convince my muscles to obey me again.

Then he stole one last kiss before pulling out and gently lowering my leg to the ground. Once he was certain that I was standing firmly, he finally released the metal bands that had kept me pinned to the wall.

I didn’t waste a second. Ripping the clothes over my head, I tossed them aside so that I could see again. Levi was standing two strides away, a smug smile lurking on his lips.

While my clothes were still falling through the air in a flutter of white leather and dark cloth, I brushed my palms together and summoned a wind blast that I hurled into Levi’s chest before he could so much as blink.

The force of it sent him flying backwards across the room before he slammed down back first on the bed. I had nothing if not impeccable aim. Stunned surprise flashed across his features as he landed, making the mattress bounce and rumpling the impeccable black sheets.

Before he could recover, I climbed onto the bed and knelt between his legs.

With a wicked smile on my lips, I wrapped my hand around his thick cock and leaned forward.

Lying on his back, he arched a dark eyebrow at me. “And what exactly do you think you’re doing?”

A shudder of pleasure racked his muscular frame as I drew my hand up and down his shaft. I grinned at him.

“Getting revenge.”

Chapter41

Asteady sense of rightness filled my soul as I lay there in my bed with Eve’s toned body flush against mine. I tightened my arm around her, pulling her even closer to me. She rested her cheek and one hand on my chest. Sliding my fingers through her hair, I played with her loose brown curls while I just drank in this moment.

She nestled deeper into my embrace.

I glanced down at her. And for the first time in weeks, I felt only joy when I looked at her.

Ever since that day in the warehouse when she let me go, all I had felt when I so much as thought about her was pain. Pain because I knew that I loved her but had to pretend like I hated her. For her own safety. But that agony was over now, because I didn’t have to pretend anymore.

Regret flickered through me as I thought about Eve’s admonishment today, and I had to suppress a wince. She was right. I should have told her from the start. I had wanted to protect her, but I had forgotten, or rather purposely ignored, what I learned about her the very first time we met. Eve didn’tneedprotecting. She was more than capable of handling herself. She had deserved the right to know what I was really doing, how I really felt, and to make her own decision after that. But I just… I had gotten scared.

Eve traced a circle on my chest before giving it a couple of firm taps. I looked down at her again as she tilted her head back to meet my gaze. In the warm light from the oil lamp above, her brown eyes glittered like the gold veins in the room around us.

“Bastard,” she said. “You ran like a coward before I could say it back.”

Confusion rippled through me, and I raised my eyebrows at her. “Say what back?”

Pushing herself up on one elbow, she twisted so that she could look me straight in the eye. I almost forgot how to breathe when I noticed the intensity in her gaze as she locked eyes with me. That small ruby I had given her all those weeks ago swung slightly around her bare neck as she moved.

“I love you too, you arrogant domineering asshole.”

My heart stopped.

For a while, all I could do was stare at her with my mouth hanging open while those words ricocheted through my skull.

Then I blurted out, “You do?”

I knew that it was an absolutely ridiculous thing to say, but I still didn’t dare to hope that she had actually said what I thought she had said.

She huffed out a soft laugh and then shot me a pointed look. “Of course I do. Why do you think I let you go back in that warehouse?”

“But you said… You said that it was just because you had realized that the world wasn’t black and white.”

A sly smile curled her lips, and she lifted one shoulder in a nonchalant shrug. “Yes, well, I lied.”

Shaking my head, I let out a disbelieving laugh and then reached out to cup her cheeks. Her lips were soft against mine as I kissed her deeply.

She sighed into my mouth.

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