6. Dimitri
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DIMITRI
S he’s planning her escape.
I cup her jaw harder. It’s cute that she thinks she can get away from me a second time.
“You really don’t believe we met before, do you?” I ask.
She shrugs. “Nobody has seen me with you. Chloe wasn’t there when it happened. All I have is your word.”
“Chloe, leave the room,” I say, gritting my teeth.
“Chloe, don’t go anywhere,” Briar says.
I look up at Briar’s sister. “There’s something I need to show her. It’s a video of the two of us. A private video.”
Briar sucks in a breath.
“It’ll take a few minutes at most,” I say to Chloe.
Chloe is hesitant. “I don’t think?—”
“You owe me,” I say. “Especially after everything that happened.”
I don’t know what she sees in my eyes, but she acquiesces.
“I’ll be outside if you need me,”Chloe says to Briar.
Chloe closes the door behind her. My mind instantly takes me back to when Briar and I were last alone in this room.
“Do you remember how you woke up?”I ask, looking at Briar.
She blushes. She remembers it all right.
“I kissed you,”I say. “But it wasn’t the first time that we kissed.”
Every moment I spent with her is etched into my memory like a tattoo. It’s too bad she doesn’t recall it, but I’ll make sure she has plenty of new memories to remember me by.
“The doctor said that we should take things slow, but fuck that,”I say. “I know you. I know you tend to overthink everything. So it’s best if I show you proof of how well acquainted we were.”
“A video isn’t going to change anything.”She purses her lips. She does that when she has more tosaybut chooses not to say it.
“What are you worried about?”I probe.
“You’re controlling,”she says. “I don’t like that about you.”
“You love that about me,”I say. “Especially when I had you pinned underneath me with every inch of my cock buried inside your tight pussy.”
She blushes all the way to her hairline.
“That’s no way to speak to a lady,”she says, blinking a few times.
“I know you, Briar,”I say. “I know what you like. I know what you dislike. I know what you love. And you loved it whenever I took control.”
She likes to pretend to be all prim and proper, but there’s a freaky side of heronly Igot to see.A feisty side that she reserved just for me.
“That… doesn’t sound like me,”she says, licking herfullbottom lip.“I don’t like giving up control.”
“You did with me,”I say. “You said it made you feel liberated.”
“I very much doubt that,”she says.
Her chest is rising and falling rapidly again. I fight the urge to bite her full bottom lip and make her squirm underneath the weight of my body.
Instead, I pull out my phone.
Her violet eyes track me as I open the video.
“It’s probably better if you put these on,”I say, handing her one of my AirPods.
“I don’t think it’s necessary,”she replies.
“Unless you want everyone in the hospital to hear how much you enjoy having your pussy pounded by someone twice your size,”I say.
She blushes again and snatches the AirPod from me. I place the other one in my ear.
This is my favorite movie, after all.
I press play on the video.
Her eyes widen as the video plays. Her soft whimpers fill my ear, instantly making my cock hard. We’re kissing under the stars. She’s underneath me with her thighs wrapped around me. I’m cupping her face as I devour her mouth.
“That could be anyone,”she says now.
“But you know it’s you,”I say.
As if to prove my point, Briar throws her head back in the video, showing her face.
“Where was this?”she asks, splotches of color appearing on her cheeks.
“A nightclub.”
“The one where we met?”
“No, we first met at a sex club,”I say. “This is just a regular club.”
“What was I doingat a sex…”She trails off when she hears the sound of her moans. Her skin glistens under the moonlight as she writhes underneath me.
I’m about to push my cock into her for the first time.Her thighs are wrapped around me. She rocks her wet pussy against me, craving the friction. Our hands are in a frenzy as we touch each other everywhere.
We started like a wildfire.
From the momentI first saw her, I knewthatI’d only exist in her flames.She was the shining star that would guide me through the darkness of this life.
She made me feel things I never felt before for another person. She brought out a part of me that I didn’t even know existed.
We’re kissing as I make hermine for the first time.
Evenin the beginning, we never kissed like we were strangers. We kissed like lovers who found their way back to each other. Like we fought wars just to be in each other’s arms again.
“It was love at first sight,”Isay. “I didn’t even believe in love then, let alone something like falling for someone the second you meet them.”
“This doesn’t change anything,”she whispers, hypnotized by the kissing and writhing on the video.
“It changes everything, and you know it,”I say, pausing the video.
If I watch another secondof it, I’ll want to re-enact everything, whether shewants it or not. I’m going to want to kiss her until her thighs fall open for me like the pages of a book.
“Is this enough proof now, or do you need more?”I ask her.
“I’m not that girl anymore,”she says, looking straight at me. “I don’t remember you. I don’t feel anything for you.”
“Pretty little liar,”Isay.“You can fool yourselfall you like, but you can never fool me.”
There’s a knock on the door.
“Um, Boss?”It’s Pavel, my second-in-command. “We have an important update.”
“Come back later,”I tell him, not taking my eyes off Briar.
Her violet eyes watch me back. She’s equal parts turned on and scared. I want nothingmorethan to ease her worries with my touch, but I know she’s not ready for that right now.
I’ll have to be patient with her.
Maybe her subconscious mind remembers how things ended between us. Maybe that’s why she’s reluctant to let me in now.
“You’regoing to want tohear this,”Pavel says, remaining by the door.
I turn to look athim. I’m about to ask him to leave when I see the excitement in his eyes. He found something. Someone.
“Rurik?”I say my missing brother’s name like a hopeful prayer.
His excitement fades. He shakes his head and says, “The other one.”
He found Briar’s mother.
“Dead or alive?” I ask in Russian.
“Alive,” he answers. “Very much alive.”
“Are you certain it’s her?”
“She dyed her hair brown, but it’s still her all right.”
I stand, but Briar has her hand wrapped around my wrist. Both of us glance down at it. She releases me immediately like she didn’t realize she was holding me.
It takes me right back.
Right back to the night we met.