“Then stop, Eros! You said you wouldn—” I parted my lips, brows knotting together. Fuck. I was going to cum.
Eros pounded his fingers into me, shoving me against the counter with each thrust. He slapped his hand over my mouth. I buckled forward and moaned into his hand, eyes rolling back.
Holy Hell.
My core was pulsing over and over as I released myself onto him. Waves of ecstasy were rolling through my body. I inhaled deeply. “What was that for?” I asked. “I told you the truth.”
He pulled his hand from my pants and pushed himself off of me. “That was to make sure you knew that you’re mine.” And, without another word, he grabbed my wine, walked out of the kitchen, and stared at me from the couch.
I gazed around the room, hoping that nobody saw. That was… a lot.
Kasey was chatting with Aarav—staring right at me—lips in a smirk. Just by looking at her, I could tell that she knew everything that had just happened.
Fuck. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I was going to Hell, and this time I wasn’t joking. Hell was real, it was all fucking real.
CHAPTER 30
Dani
“Are you jealous?” I asked on the ride home with Eros. Maria had insisted that I drive with him—not her—because she wanted us to spend quality time together, but I really think she just wanted to flirt with some other people who showed up at Kasey’s.
Eros stayed quiet, his hand tightening on the steering wheel. Under the dim streetlights, his ring was shining brightly. “No.” He took a deep breath. “It’s not in my nature to be a jealous person… I just don’t understand why he’s staying with you.”
I sighed. Trevon’s secret was going to be harder to keep to myself than I thought it would.
“He just has to.” I grabbed his hand resting on the gearshift. “If it makes you feel better, you can stay the night with me.” My words shook as I said them because I didn’t know if it was too soon to sleep over each other’s places.
“What are we, Dani?” Eros asked.
“What?” I laughed nervously. God, I didn’t expect him to just come out and ask that. I wasn’t prepared to answer that kind of question yet.
Eros pulled into the lot to our apartment building and parked. “What do you think we are?”
“What do you think we are?” I asked, playing with his ring. The shiny dark metal molded to his finger almost perfectly.
He pulled his hand away and faced me, his green eyes nearly glowing in the darkness. “I asked you first.”
“I—uh… think we are a lot of things.”
“Look at me when you talk, Dani,” he said.
My heart raced, and I looked over at him. What did I think we were? Well, that answer was probably much different from what I hoped we were.
“Calm down. It’s just a question.”
“If it’s just a question, then why can’t you answer it first?”
He chuckled and shook his head. “Be confident. You feel what you feel, and you need to be honest with yourself. It’s the only way you’ll ever be happy.”
There it was again. Him telling me to choose happiness—even if that meant giving him up.
I parted my lips. “I think that we’re…” I swallowed my insecurities, ready to be vulnerable and happy. “I hope that we have something more than this physical attraction. I—I feel something between us, and I think you do too, I just don’t know what it is.”
He just stared at me for four, five, six moments. Completely silent. His face was void of all emotion, and I gulped.
“But it’s totally okay if you don’t. I’m just being stupid and speaking nonsense and—”
He pressed his lips to mine, his fingers trailing up my forearm and creating a sea of goosebumps on my skin. I sat still for a moment—overwhelmed. The kiss was soft and gentle and full of love and I never wanted it to end. So, I closed my eyes and kissed him back.
His fingers laced through my hair, and he pulled me closer to him. Pressing his lips harder to mine and slowly devouring me. And, in that moment, I knew one thing and one thing only: I wanted us more than anything I’d ever wanted.
After another moment, he pulled away, leaving us both breathless. His eyes were a clear green. There was no tension in his face, except in his lips which were in a tight line. “I want you to be sure, Dani.”
I was sure. I hadn’t been more sure of anything.
“Are you sure?” I asked, a smile on my face.
He chuckled. “You’re so weird.”
“What? I need you to be sure too!”
A lopsided grin stretched across his face. “I’m sure.” He took my hands. “Please just think us through. I need you to make the right choice for yourself.”
“What is there to think through, Eros?” I squeezed his hands and laughed to myself. “I don’t think that anything you can say or do would surprise me at this point.”
He paused. “Just every moment that we’ve been together.”
I sucked on my cheek. When I read that article the other day, I didn’t think that demons existed but after Trevon changed into that beast I knew that anything was possible. I even wanted to ask him about it, but that meant I needed to reveal Trevon’s secret. And I wasn’t about to do that—yet.
If Eros ended up just being human, he’d freak out about Trevon staying with me. He might even call the police, get him arrested, or—worse—get him killed.
Instead, I nodded. “Okay.”
He brought my hand to his lips and kissed the top of it, just like he had done the first day I met him when all I wanted was to stay away from him because the attraction between us was too overwhelming. Look at us now.
“Stay with me tonight,” he said.
“In your apartment?” I asked. He nodded. “I—um… Maria doesn’t feel comfortable staying alone with Trevon.”
“Well, it’s good that Zane is staying at your place tonight, isn’t it?”
“He is?” I asked.
“He is now.”
“No, Eros, I don’t want to be a bother. It’s okay. I don’t have to stay—”
“Dani, it would make me happy if you stayed with me.”
And—because I wanted to—I nodded my head. “Okay.”
While Eros looked for Zane, I stripped off my clothes in his room. Though dull, the black walls and gray décor looked sleek at night when the city-lights gleamed on them through three wall-length windows. The only color in the sea of blacks and grays was the gold throw blanket, handing off the edge of his bed, and a golden apple that sat on his black metallic side-table.
I gazed at the city and unclipped my bra, letting out a sigh. After the last few days, the simplest things relaxed me. I hoped that the demon was exorcized from Trevon because if it wasn’t, I didn’t know when I’d be able to enjoy another night with Eros.
The door opened behind me. “He’s not her—”
I gazed over my bare shoulder, watching Eros’s gaze drift down my body. “Are you just going to stare at me?” I asked, the corners of my lips curling into a smirk.
He stepped back. “Sorry.”
I played with the ends of the throw blanket and smirked. “Don’t go.”
After Kasey’s party, I couldn’t get Eros off of my mind. I wanted to pick up where we left off. With him between my legs, his fingers inside of me, his lips hovering under my ear, making me beg for him.