Eveline stopped pacing and glared at Ethan and Joe.
“That’s it!” she hissed, hands fisting at her sides. “No more men for me. They’re all assholes!”
“Hey!” Ethan protested.
“Hush,” Joe murmured drily out of the corner of his mouth. “She looks like she could physically hurt one of us right now.”
Eveline narrowed her eyes. “Did you say something, Joe?”
“Nope,” Joe lied, flashing a smile at her.
Eveline watched him suspiciously for a moment before stomping across the floor once more. “In fact, I think I’m gonna become a lesbian!” she declared. “Yup, no more dicks for me!”
Ethan swallowed a snort at this unlikely probability and arched an eyebrow at Joe while Eveline continued ranting across the way.
“So, tell me something. How come you took down my stalker like it was nothing and you’re scared of her?” he said in a low voice.
Joe looked at Ethan steadily. “I take it you’ve never seen Eveline in a fighting ring before?”
Ethan blinked, surprised. “You mean kickboxing? No, I haven’t.”
Joe sighed. “Thank your lucky stars. She’s vicious when she gets riled up.”
Ethan’s cell buzzed in his jeans pocket. He fished it out and studied the number on the screen with a faint frown. He’d put the phone on silent a few hours ago.
“Who is it?” Joe said curiously.
“I don’t know.” Ethan took the call and brought the cell to his ear. “Hello?”
“Ethan?!”
Ethan’s eyes widened. “Yuki? Sorry, I didn’t recognize the num—”
“It’s my private cell,” Yuki interrupted excitedly. “Look, he’s gonna be there any minute. Tell Eveline to turn her damn phone on. There’s another contract in her mailbox!”
She disconnected. Ethan listened to the dial tone and looked to where Eveline had stopped in the middle of the lounge and stood staring at him.
“Hmm, Yuki says you should turn your phone on,” he said.
Eveline scowled. “Why?”
The doorbell rang suddenly, startling them.
Ethan blinked. He had a sudden inkling about the identity of the person at their front door. The bell rang again and continued chiming as whoever was outside jammed the damn thing repeatedly with a finger.
Ethan kept a straight face while he stood up and started for the door. “Yuki said to check your mailbox for a second contract,” he told Eveline over his shoulder.
“What?” Eveline snapped. “What the hell does that mean?”
Someone started pounding on the door. Joe frowned and rose to his feet as Ethan crossed the foyer.
Eveline grabbed her cell from a side table and switched it on. The phone buzzed violently in her hand as dozens of missed messages and call alerts came through.
Ethan turned the lock and opened the front door.
Lincoln stood on the threshold, face pale and fist raised to strike the panel again. He was soaking wet.
Ethan grimaced. “Wow. I’m not sure who looked more like a drowned rat, you or—”
“Where is she?” Lincoln said hoarsely, his eyes wild with desperation.
Ethan stood aside as Lincoln stormed past him and entered the condo, water dripping off his skin and clothes. An outraged cry erupted from the other side of the apartment.
EVELINE TOOK one look at Lincoln where he’d slowed in the hallway and bolted toward him, rage distorting her vision. Joe swore and locked an arm around her waist when she dashed past him.
“Eveline, calm down!” he growled as she struggled in his hold. “Look, there’s obviously more going on here than you think, so why don’t you—”
Blood roared in Eveline’s ears as her body reacted defensively. She gripped Joe above his left elbow, hooked her arm under his shoulder, lifted him in the air, and threw him to the ground in front of her.
Stunned silence descended around them in the wake of the harsh thud. Ethan gaped. Lincoln blanched.
“Ouch,” Joe said with a wince where he lay on his back.
Eveline froze. Shock and remorse replaced her fury when she realized what she’d just done.
“I’m—shit! I’m sorry, Joe!” she mumbled as she dropped to her knees by his side. “Are you okay?!”
Joe sat up and grimaced as he rubbed the back of his head with his hand. “Yeah, I’m fine. The only thing that’s hurt is my ego.” He climbed to his feet and gave Eveline a stern look as she rose beside him. “Have you calmed down now?”
Eveline flushed and bit her lip before nodding meekly.
“Good,” Joe said with a grunt. He glanced at Lincoln and the pool of water he was standing in. “Now, listen to the man before he floods our damn apartment.”
Eveline stiffened. She steeled herself before turning toward Lincoln. She took a deep breath and met his gaze unflinchingly.
“What do you want?” she managed between gritted teeth.
Lincoln’s knuckles whitened at his sides. He took a step toward her, his expression wary. “I’m sorry.”
Eveline blinked, indignation a hot dagger twisting her belly. “That’s it?! You’ve come all the way here to say—”
“I love you,” Lincoln said quietly.
Eveline went deadly still. Her ears started buzzing with a distant ringing.
“There was a second contract,” Lincoln continued as he took another step toward her. “You weren’t meant to—”
“What did you just say?” Eveline whispered.
Lincoln finally came to a stop before her, his blue eyes glittering with such raw emotion Eveline’s breath caught in her throat. This time, there was no mistaking the feeling blazing out of Lincoln.
“There’s a second contract,” Lincoln repeated. “The paperwork—”
“No!” Eveline said. She grabbed the front of his shirt and tugged him close, unheeding of the water soaking into her shirt. “Not that! What you said before!” Her voice broke and her vision blurred as fresh tears pooled in her eyes.
Lincoln folded her in his arms and tucked her head against his chest. “I love you,” he whispered, his voice shaking. “I think I fell in love with you that day you stormed into my office and demanded I sell you the plot in Ginza. I just didn’t know it at the—”
Eveline rose on her tip toes, looped her arms around Lincoln’s neck, and swallowed the rest of his words with her mouth. He cradled her face in his large hands and kissed her back just as heatedly, his face flushed and his body trembling against hers.
“Er,” someone said in an awkward voice some time later.
CHAPTER 20
EVELINE BLINKED her eyes slowly open, desire a tempest threatening to sweep her away. She stared into Lincoln’s glazed expression and saw him drowning in the same passion that filled her veins with fire.
He was also holding her up with her back against the wall and her legs wrapped around his waist, their bodies locked so tightly around each other it was a miracle they could even breathe.
Eveline looked over Lincoln’s shoulder to where Ethan stood smiling goofily at them. He had his arms looped around Joe’s waist while the latter covered his eyes with one hand, ears flushed with embarrassment.
“Not that we don’t appreciate the peep show, but…,” Ethan started.
Eveline slid out of Lincoln’s hold, grabbed his hand, and headed across the condo and down a hallway to one of Ethan and Joe’s guest bedrooms. She pushed Lincoln inside the room, turned, and closed the door in Ethan’s face.
“Hey!” Ethan protested from the hallway. “You guys had better not get up to any hanky-panky in there!”
Eveline twisted on her heels and stared hotly at Lincoln, her back against the door.
“You were supposed to get both contracts tomorrow,” Lincoln said, his expression contrite where he stood facing her. “I was going to take you out for dinner tonight and tell you about my proposal. I even booked the whole rooftop terrace of a hotel and hired a chef and a sommelier—
”
“You have five minutes, Linc,” Eveline said feverishly, her pulse racing as she forced herself to stay put. “After that, your clothes are coming off.”
Lincoln’s lips curved in a smile. “I bought the place opposite Le Secret. We’ll share the freehold while you establish the club in the new building. Once my new hotel is up, I was going to suggest you either stay put or move Le Secret to the top of my building.” His smile widened. “You know, like we talked about in Hawaii.”
Eveline didn’t realize she’d been holding her breath until she let out a ragged exhale. “That was just a joke,” she mumbled.
“It was a good idea though,” Lincoln said. “The club would have its own access at the side and you could run it independent of my hotel if you wanted to, although I think both our businesses would benefit from the collaboration.”
The enormity of what Lincoln had done and was proposing finally sank into Eveline’s consciousness. Her legs went weak.
Damn. He really does love me.
She inhaled shakily, pushed away from the door, and closed the distance between them. She stopped an inch from Lincoln and slowly ran her fingers up his wet tie.
“What if I don’t want to be independent?” she murmured, tilting her head to the side while she slipped the knot free.
LINCOLN SWALLOWED at the desire burning in Eveline’s eyes. The same desire that was threatening to consume him, body and soul.
“What if—,” Eveline rose on her tip toes and brought her lips to Lincoln’s right ear, “—I want to be tied down and taken any which way you want to take me?”
Fuck!
Lincoln’s cock throbbed so hard he thought he was going to come there and then.
“I’m—,” he paused and cleared his dry throat, “I’m okay with that, too.”
Eveline stilled before lowering herself back down on her bare feet, her expression growing serious.
“There’s only one problem,” she said quietly. “You’re leaving Tokyo.”
Lincoln gently took her hands in his. “I’ll have to go back to New York at some point, yes. But I can run my business from anywhere in the world. If Tokyo is where that’s from in the future, then—”
Eveline grabbed the end of his tie, yanked his head down, and kissed him hard. “You’re crazy!” she said against his lips. “Why the hell would you make such a huge decision for your business based on—”
Lincoln took Eveline’s mouth in a scorching kiss that had her melting against him.
“Because this—you—us,” he murmured when he finally freed her lips. “It’s more important to me than money.”
Eveline shuddered in his arms. “God, Linc. You kill me,” she whispered.
Lincoln shivered at the passion in her blue eyes. He bumped his forehead against hers.
“Say it, Evie.” He took a ragged breath. “I need to hear the words.”
Eveline swallowed before looping her arms around Lincoln’s neck. “I love you, Lincoln ‘Monster Meat’ Hudson,” she said solemnly, her gaze locked unblinkingly on his. “With all of my heart.”
Lincoln’s heart soared so high then he thought he would fly. He chuckled in the next instant.
Shit, only she could make me laugh when I’m this rock hard.
He arched an eyebrow at Eveline, barely holding on to his self-control. “Are the five minutes up?”
Eveline grinned. “Yup.”
They were halfway through tearing each other’s clothes off while they kissed each other hungrily when there was a knock at the door. They froze and stared at each other.
Lincoln strode bare chested and bare footed to the door while Eveline yanked her shirt off the floor and held it in front of her.
Ethan stood on the threshold of the bedroom, a filthy grin on his face. He cast a box at Lincoln. “Here, condoms. The extra-large kind. Joe and I are gonna be at Saron. Let us know when you’re, er, done.” He looked over Lincoln’s shoulder and winked at Eveline. “Have fun!”
Lincoln smiled as he watched Ethan saunter down the corridor to where Joe stood waiting for him, their jackets in hand. Eveline really did have great friends. He closed the bedroom door and twisted on his heels.
Eveline had dropped the shirt and stood facing him, stark naked and hands on her hips in a seductive pose that made all the blood in his body go instantly south.
“Let’s test these bedsprings, shall we?” she said, her eyes burning bright as she cocked her head at the bed.
Lincoln stripped out of his wet pants and briefs as he stalked toward her, his dick pulsing with need. He cast the box of condoms on the bed, grabbed Eveline’s butt, and lifted her up against him.
Eveline looped her arms around Lincoln’s neck as their lips met in a blistering kiss, her legs locking automatically around his hips.
Lincoln growled when her damp, bare sex rubbed seductively against the back of his aching shaft. Her scent wrapped around him as he tumbled her backward onto the mattress. Although Lincoln wanted nothing more than to sink his cock so deep inside Eveline she’d see stars, he wanted to pleasure her first, to the point that she’d beg him to take her.
With that thought in mind, Lincoln pinned Eveline’s hands above her head, lavished her breasts with kisses and bites while she twisted and panted beneath him, and worked his way slowly down her trembling body, his lips and tongue wrenching sultry moans from her throat.
Eveline shivered when Lincoln slipped a pillow under her ass, lifting her up slightly. He parted her thighs with his large hands, hooked her knees over his shoulders, and lowered his head to nuzzle her sex.
Lincoln looked up at Eveline and caught her feverish stare as she gazed down the length of her body at him, her knuckles whitening in the sheets above her head in anticipation of what was to come. This was the position the two of them had their most intense orgasms in.
Lincoln furrowed his tongue and licked Eveline’s sex from bottom to top, parting her folds while he kept his eyes locked on hers. Her breath froze on her lips, pleasure dilating her pupils to black.
Lincoln’s dick swelled and pulsated against the mattress at the velvety taste of Eveline and the knowledge that he would soon be buried in her heat. He suppressed his raging libido, gripped the inside of Eveline’s thighs, and brought his full attention to driving her out of her mind as he circled and lapped at her clit with his tongue just the way he knew she liked it.
CHAPTER 21
EVELINE CRIED out and writhed on the bed at the pleasure Lincoln was giving her, her hips undulating and driving her sex greedily against his mouth while he worked her engorged flesh. He slipped two fingers inside her and hissed when she clenched tightly around him. He found the nub on the front wall of her vagina and rubbed it while he closed his lips on her clit and sucked deeply.
Sound and sight faded. Eveline was dimly aware of her body arching off the bed as she screamed and exploded in his arms. Lincoln nuzzled and lovingly kissed her sex as she convulsed from her powerful climax, her passage rhythmically squeezing and sucking at his fingers while he carried on working her G-spot.
By the time he brought her to her third orgasm, Eveline was sobbing his name, tears of ecstasy leaking from her eyes while sweat coated her flushed chest and belly in a fine sheen.
“Linc, please!” Eveline moaned.
Lincoln finally let go of his grip on her thighs and rose up on his knees, his body shuddering. He took a condom out of the box and ripped the foil with his teeth while he dropped his left hand to his leaking cock.
“Please what, Evie?” he growled as he rubbed himself, his blue eyes blazing with lust while he spread his pre-cum along his shaft.
Eveline tugged her lower lip between her teeth as she watched him roll the rubber over his inflamed dick. She wanted him inside her so bad she felt she would die if he didn’t give her what she wanted in the next few seconds. She lifted her upper body off the bed, grabbed his corded forearms, and twined her legs around his waist.
“Please, enter me!” E
veline begged. “Take me, Linc! Jesus, just fuck—”
She screamed as Lincoln grasped her hips and gave her exactly what they both wanted, impaling her with his cock in a single thrust that had him balls deep inside her, her hungry passage stretching exquisitely to accommodate his girth.
However many times they’d had sex before, Eveline couldn’t get enough of this feeling. This feeling of being filled to her very core.
Lincoln stilled above her and closed his eyes, the animal expression on his face telling her he was close to losing control. He unhooked her legs from around his waist, lifted them in the air, and dropped her ankles on his shoulders.
They both groaned as the move deepened the angle of Lincoln’s penetration. Lincoln’s breaths came in harsh, hard pants as he leaned over Eveline and grabbed her hands where she gripped the bedsheets, forcing her to bend her knees almost to her chest.
He looked down into her glazed eyes, pulled his hips back, and thrust back in, his dick pressing on her G-spot.
Eveline gasped, fiery tingles spreading through her body from where he was lodged deep inside her.
Lincoln repeated the move, slow and deep at first, then harder and faster, driving both of them higher and higher. The bed rocked and the springs squeaked, a sexy, filthy symphony to Eveline’s rising cries and Lincoln’s harsh grunts.
The first wave of Eveline’s orgasm licked a blazing trail from the tips of her toes all the way up to her thighs. Her breath stuttered as the most incredible pressure pooled in her lower belly and arrowed in on her sex, tightening her entire body like a bow.
Lincoln’s rigid shaft trembled inside her as he surfed the first wave of his own climax. He clenched his jaw and paused on the very cusp of their orgasms. Eveline looked up dazedly at him, her lashes wet with tears of pleasure. He leaned down and took her lips in a long, slow kiss.
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