“Cassie and I are planningto go shopping,” Charlotte said, drawing my attention back to me. “I, er, I wanted to ask you something.”
“Go ahead.”
“Ivan said I needed to start shopping for a honeymoon.”
This was news to me. Yes, Ivan did sayCharlotte and I were to take a honeymoon, but then shit hit the fan real fucking quick. I couldn’t leave my territory until I had resolved the Hank and Benjamin problem.
“He did?”
“Yes. Do you know where we’re going?” she asked.
I rubbed at my eyes.
“I’ve annoyed you?”
“No, you haven’t annoyedme. Ivan likes to meddle. I don’t know when we’re going to be able to go on a honeymoon. Do you even want to go or is this something Ivan’s cooking up?” I asked.
“I’d like to go,” she said. “I mean, if you’d like to go with me. I don’t want to go on a honeymoonby myself, but only when you’re ready, and of course, like I said, if you want to go. Do you want to go with me?””Yes, I do,” I said. Yeah, that was a realfucking surprise to me as well. I actually wanted to spend time with my wife. It was unexpected. I had started to look forward to seeing her. No woman had ever left me feeling that way. This was all new to me.
Charlotte’s smile lit up her whole face and she moved a little closer to me. Damn, did she even realize how pretty she was?
Why the fuck was I thinking this shit? I wasn’t the lovey-dovey kind of guy. I killed shit for a living. Maybe I just needed a good fuck. It had been too long since I last had one. Before I’d met Charlotte. Before we’d kidnapped her. No other woman appealed to me.
I figured it was because of work and dealing with all therepercussions and stuff. Charlotte was too young. I was a forty-year-old fucking man. I’d never been attracted to young women.
Charlotte reached out and touched my cheek. Why did I like this touch so much? Her caresses weren’t tutored. They weren’t sure. She was nervous, I understood that. She wasn’t used to being near men. She was still a virgin and that shouldn’t turn me on but it did.
“Can I kiss you?” she asked.
“You don’t need to ask permission.”
Her gaze dropped to my lips.
“Will you kiss me back?”
“If you want me to.”
She nodded her head and nibbled her lip.”I’d like that.”
I knew this girl was messed up. Her dad and the people who were meant to love her had done a number on her. Cassie had visited me at the casino and tried to tell me that Charlotte was falling in love with me but she was afraid. I didn’t know exactly what she was afraid of. There was no way anyone was taking me away. No one would ever take me from Charlotte. Just like there was no need to be afraid because she wasn’t going anywhere.
Charlotte leaned in a little closer, then a little closer. Her palm pressed against my chest. Staring up into her eyes, I waited. I’m not the kind of man who allowed a woman to take the lead but with Charlotte, I’d make the exception. She was the onlyexception I would make.
“I’m nervous,” she said, then smiled at me.
Reaching up, I slowly pushed back some locks of her hair. “There’s nothing to be nervous about. You can kiss me, or we can just stay here.”Her gaze dropped to my lips and I knew she wanted to be kissed. This had to be her choice. This first time at least. I’d kissed her for her birthday, but this was different.
She leaned down and her lips brushed against mine. They were so soft at first, if I didn’t have my eyes open to witness the kiss, I wouldn’t have realized one was happening.
I pushed out my tongue, and traced it across her lips. She jerked back, only a little, and then moved back toward my lips. Her tongue touching mine. Her touches were light, delicate, completely untutored, and I fucking relished tasting her, teasing her, showing her exactly what I wanted. Charlotte followed my lead. There was no reason to talk.
Sliding my fingers to the back of her head, I forced our lips together, and a moan filled my mouth as it spilled from her lips.
Heavenly. There was no other word to describe it. She tasted like pureHeaven.
Slowly, I pushed her to the bed. She didn’t fight me, but slid to her back, and I stared down at her and then began to explore her mouth. Tracing my tongue acrossher lips, Charlotte opened her mouth, and I plunged inside. I couldn’t help but imagine my cock between those plump lips, me teaching her how to suck it.
I ran my hands up her body, taking hold of her fingers, locking them together, and pressing them against the bed. She moaned again, and I was growing increasingly addicted to the sounds she made. I changed my position so this time I was rested between her spread thighs. My cock was rock-hard as I pressed against her core. There was no hiding my arousal, and I didn’t want to.
I’d been fucking pretending to myself, lying, that I didn’t want this woman. I don’t know what it was about her that called to me, but I did fucking crave her. That’s why I stayed away.
Work was nothing more than an excuse. Having her at my penthouse suite was so freaking hard. It was easier to try and keep separate lives than acknowledge I wanted my wife.
Charlotte thrust her pelvis up against me, and I pulled back just a little to stare into her eyes. She was a virgin. Did she haveany idea the fire she played with?
I had a feeling she didn’t have a clue, she was only responding to what her body wanted. I was what her body wanted. Fuck me, she was perfect. It was like she had stepped straight out of a dream.
I was about to kiss her again, but the knock at the main door came loud and fast. Charlotte gasped.
“Who could that be?”
Hubert went home every night. This building was locked tight and it was very rare for there to be an attack. No one who was going to kill you fucking knocked on your front door.
Pressing a kiss to her lips, I ordered her to stay here, and climbed out of the bed. The possibility of danger was like throwing a bucket of cold water over me. My dick was no longer hard, and I was focused on taking care of my woman.
I grabbed my gun on the way out of the bedroom, pulled the door closed to offer Charlotte privacy so she didn’t have to see if I ended up attacking someone.
Making my way to the door, I took my time, and then checked through the peephole to see that it was Ivan. Along with him was fucking Victor Abdulov.