Chapter 71
CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
“ S eriously?”
Coming to an abrupt stop in the bedroom doorway after putting Jace down, Larissa gaped at Moon. The big doofus had removed his sweatpants and was sitting naked in the middle of the bed.
She shut the bedroom door and tried to think of disgusting creatures, like snails, snakes, and spiders, to keep from gawking at Moon.
Why? she mentally cried out. Why does he have the power to melt my body into molten lava?
It’s just not fair! she whined.
“Come to Papa.” He grinned wickedly.
Balefully, she pretended uninterest while her reproductive parts were yelling at her to get her some.
She walked to the side of the bed, then flipped the blanket over to cover his hardened cock. “Mama not in the mood.” Reaching for a pillow, she shoved it under her arm. “I can’t believe you think I’m going to sleep with you tonight. From what you said, I already have your vote. I need to save my strength for Friday. I’m going to be very busy ... Why don’t you go see if Ms. Kissy Face has room for you in her bed?” Proud of herself for keeping her voice low and even, she gave him a dismissive glance.
“But I don’t want to fuck Saffron; I want to fuck you.”
Unable to help herself, she turned around to give him an obscene gesture. “Just in case you don’t read sign language”—she disdainfully turned back to the door—“allow me to translate for you—go fuck yourself.”
She would sleep on the floor before she would sleep with that big—
“Don’t you want to know who I kissed, since I’m being so honest tonight?”
She spun around, snapping her fingers at him. “I don’t give a fig who you kissed. Kiss her a thousand times and see if I care—”
“It was Chastity.”
Drawing a blank, she frowned at him. Did she know anyone named Chastity? She didn’t think so ...
“The saleswomen at the baby boutique.”
“You didn’t!” Her hand clenched the pillow.
“I did.”
Outrage filled her. The woman’s seductive demeanor came back to her in a rush. Unconsciously, she took a step back toward the bed.
“At the store?”
“Nope.” Moon’s eyes moved to her feet. “I went to her apartment.”
Larissa was surprised she didn’t feel hurt. No, she was too furious to be hurt.
“Did. You. Have. Sex.” With each word, she took a step closer to the bed. “With. Her?”
“No.” His grin widened. “But I did get to first base.”
One second, she was standing beside the bed, and the next, she was hitting him with the pillow.
“I’m never going to be able to go to that store again! I’ll have to drive to Lexington!”
She was whaling on him with the pillow when she heard his laughter.
“You’re laughing at me?”
“Yes.” He started laughing harder. “You do know that pillow is ultra soft, right?”
Losing what sanity she was hanging on to, she clenched the pillow with both hands and flew at him. Squeezing her eyes closed, she tried to smother the cheating prick.
“What are you trying to do?”
Her eyes popped open. “Smothering you!”
Moon snatched the pillow away and threw it across the room.
She didn’t let it deter her from getting even. But when she swung her fist at his mouth, she found it grasped in Moon’s hand. Failing at the first attempt, she swung her other fist, only to have it caught, too.
“I hope your lips rot off,” she spat out vindictively.
Since both her hands were trapped, she was left with no recourse. She lowered her head and bit him on the shoulder.
His laughter strangled in his throat.
“Damn , woman, you get vicious when you’re roused. I like it.”
Stricken at what she had done, she raised her mouth and tried to jump off Moon and run from the room.
“Nuh-uh.” Clicking his tongue at her, Moon rolled over and pulled her underneath him. “You’ve been a naughty girl all night. That’s twice you’ve bitten me.” He pinned her hands to the mattress, then started scrunching down her body.
“I only bit you once.” Struggling against him, she tried to throw him off her. Apprehensively, she watched as he shouldered his way between her thighs.
“Did you forget the first time we fucked?”
She had.
“I’m sorry,” she apologized around the lump in her throat.
“Don’t. I don’t mind you getting a little rough.” Moon nuzzled her bunched-up robe and nightgown aside to slide his mouth over her smooth, shaven pelvic area.
She tensed when his tongue parted her cleft. Then he ran his tongue down each side before turning his mouth in a new direction. When Moon laved his way to her inner thigh, she tried to wiggle her hands out of his grip.
“Now, now ...” he said in a crooning voice, “fair is fair.”
Despite the warning, she jumped when he bit down. The biting nip barely hurt in comparison to the passion that hit her with the force of a hurricane.
“That’s one,” he purred against her skin. Then, when he turned his head to reach her other thigh, she braced herself for his next bite.
She was unaware he had released one of wrists until he started rubbing her clitoris. Instead of using her free hand to stop him, she stifled her passionate cries, not wanting to wake Jace.
When the next bite came, she was helpless to stop the climax that erupted, sending her into an ecstasy she didn’t want to come back from.
When she regained her senses, she found herself fully impaled by Moon’s cock. She threw her back into the maelstrom she had just escaped from, clinging to Moon as he carried her away on another frenzied, storm-ridden journey into oblivion.
“Kiss me ...”
Moon’s raspy command dragged her back to reality.
“No. I’m never going—” A low moan escaped her at a fervent thrust.
“I only kissed Chastity for some information I needed.”
Her eyes searched his. “What kind of information?”
“That’s on a need-to-know basis.” His hands went to her hips, setting a pace that had her wanting to return to the beckoning oblivion. “I would have rather kissed a fucking garden snake than her. Now kiss me.”
She arched her neck to keep her lips out of reach of his descending mouth.
Not deterred, his lips seared the flesh on her neck.
“I didn’t have to tell you.”
“Why did you?” she gasped out.
Moon gave a throaty chuckle. “Two reasons. One, to light your fuse—you’re a firecracker when you get mad.”
Furious he was admitting to deliberately creating an argument, she started pummeling his shoulders. “I can’t stand you sometimes.”
Moon retaliated by biting down on her shoulder.
Her core turned into a pool of aching need. Striving to keep herself from losing all rational thought, she fought to keep track of what he had said.
Her hands went to his hair, making him raise his face so she could search his eyes. “You said there were two reasons.”
“I’d rather be the one to tell you, in case she ever decides to.”
“You’re covering your ass.”
“I’m covering yours.” His expression became harsh. “If you did find out, I’d rather you take it all out on me than let her see you hurt.”
She stopped hitting him, trying to think through what he had said. It wasn’t easy to do with Moon’s body moving erotically inside of her.
“I’m never going to forgive you.”
“Did I ask you to?”
She frowned up at him. No, he hadn’t.
“Good, because I won’t. I’m never going to kiss you again, either.”
“Not even”—his lips smoothed over the bite on her shoulder—“if I promise to save all my kisses for you from now on?”
She swallowed hard at the promise. As heartbreaking as it was to find out he had kissed another woman, he hadn’t had sex with her in months. He’d said there was a reason, he just wouldn’t tell her what it was.
Killyama had been mum about certain things about the club when she had gone to her house during her pregnancy. Was that why all the women joined the club—to keep tabs on their men?
She had no intention of going to that party or joining the club, but Moon didn’t know that. But what if she did go, just to find out if he had engaged in more than a lone salesclerk? With it being a masquerade party, it could be illuminating what she could find out. And if she found out he had been spreading more than his kisses around? Then kisses wouldn’t be all he wouldn’t be getting from her anymore.
“I’ll think about it.”
While denying herself his passionate kiss, she wasn’t able to withstand the driving force of his cock pushing over and over inside of her. Unable to continue to resist his raw passion, she succumbed to the dark bliss waiting in Moon’s arms ...