by Bethany-Kris
Theo turned slightly, just enough to face Evelina. “I’m not a cliché, but that was a good try. I don’t think I’m broken, I just have no interest in trying to pretend like I’m perfect. I’m not looking or waiting for a woman to fix me, either, but I also don’t need one to make me better, Eve. So good try, but not quite.”
“Deflecting,” she said.
“No, not at all.”
“You warned me.”
Theo pushed off the glass wall window and straightened to his full height.
“I did,” he said.
“But you still brought me here. You didn’t have to that, Theo. You could have taken me anywhere, dropped me off, and made a call. But you didn’t. We came here.”
“You’re right.”
“So why?” she asked.
Theo shrugged, a hint of a smile edging at the corner of his mouth. It was sexy and sinful, almost playful in nature. Except he moved forward again, crowding Evelina as his thumbs ghosted along her trim waist. The touch was light enough to make her shiver and to make her wet at the same goddamn time.
“I already told you why, Eve.”
He wasn’t very good at denying things he liked.
They wouldn’t be bad.
She didn’t care what he said.
Evelina didn’t get a warning from Theo before his hands grabbed her waist hard. His fingertips dug into her sides, making her ache from the pressure. It didn’t hurt, even if it stung. He held her so tight, she was sure his fingerprints would imprint on her skin under her dress.
“I heard a rumor the other day,” Theo murmured, his gaze zoning in on Evelina’s lips as she let out a shaky breath.
“Oh?”
“Someone said there might be a marriage on the table soon. No talk about who, just that there might be one coming.”
Evelina’s shoulders fell. “Maybe.”
“You shouldn’t have looked for me tonight, not if something like that is being discussed.”
“You shouldn’t have brought me here, Theo, not if you heard about it.”
He didn’t respond. Not in the way she thought he would.
No, he kissed her instead. Hard, fast, and demanding. His hands fisted into her dress and yanked her close before one traveled up into her hair and rooted her in place with enough force to make her scalp sting. Evelina sighed, letting Theo’s tongue snake between her lips and find hers, owning the kiss. His teeth scraped her skin and lips, taking more, and his five o’clock shadow left a lovely ache behind.
There was no give in Evelina’s kiss.
Theo just took.
She didn’t mind.
All over again, Evelina couldn’t breathe. When she finally got air, Theo forced her head back, his thumbs finding her cheekbones as he stared down at her.
This couldn’t possibly be bad when it felt entirely fucking good.
“Tell me to stop.”
Evelina shook her head.
Theo’s fingers on her cheek and neck pressed a little harder. It was lovely and wicked. She wanted more. More of his roughness, more of his touch. “Tell me to stop.”
“Do you fuck like this, too?” she asked instead.
Theo’s gaze darkened. “Eve.”
“Do you?”
“Yes.”
“Wonderful. Don’t stop.”
CHAPTER NINE
Theo dragged his thumbs from the high lines of Evelina’s cheekbones straight to the corners of her painted red lips. She caught the pad of his left thumb with the strike of her tongue before it disappeared back into her mouth.
It was enough. Enough for him to feel the heat and wetness of her saliva. Enough to make his cock ache.
“I wondered,” Evelina hummed out.
“Wondered what, princess?”
Evelina’s grin was downright scandalous. “What you’d taste like.”
She was pushing him, testing him. Her voice was demure, promising sex. She watched him through thick lashes with hooded eyes and the patience a God would give a Saint. There was nothing innocent about Evelina Conti.
“And what about tomorrow, huh?” Theo asked.
“What about it?”
“When you have to go back, Eve, and tonight goes away.”
Evelina blinked, her smile fading slightly. “You mean to say when I have to go back and act like a princess.”
“You said it.”
“I guess I don’t have to worry about that for a while since Adriano told me to stay away earlier.”
Shit.
Theo wet his lips, feeling the silky smoothness of Evelina’s skin under his palms and fingertips. She caught his thumb with her mouth when he swept the digit over her lips. Instead of flicking it with her tongue like she had before, she sucked the tip between her lips and bit down with just enough force for it to sting.
“Christ,” Theo muttered heavily.
Evelina grinned around his thumb, her tongue swirling at the top of his digit.
She might have been pushing him, but he was no better. Theo was trying to give her an excuse to run. They could both just forget this almost happened, and he could go back to pretending like she didn’t exist. It was easier to act like Evelina didn’t matter than to admit she did. Because if he did admit she mattered, he’d be fucking stuck like that.
He didn’t want to give someone else the chance to open up his scars again, or that more could be made.
“Stop overthinking,” Evelina said.
Theo wouldn’t deny a woman who knew what she wanted. Pushing Evelina backward until she hit the sliding glass doors, Theo leaned down until their noses touched and he could see the fire in her eyes. When Evelina squirmed under the weight of his body pinning hers, Theo pressed harder, catching her wrists in his right hand and moving them above her head. His cock throbbed beneath his pants, the hard length of his erection digging into her pelvis. Evelina’s tongue peeked out to wet her lips, a wariness settling in her features.
Without warning, Theo grabbed the hem of Evelina’s dress and bunched it up her legs until he could look down and see black cotton trimmed with navy blue lace at the junction of her thighs. Evelina’s stare caught his and her lashes fanned her cheeks when Theo swept his thumb over her bare thigh. With each stroke, he came a little closer to her cotton covered sex.
Theo grinned. “Just remember to breathe, babe.”
Evelina swallowed audibly, her pink lips opening with a shuddering whimper as Theo drove his hand between her thighs. He spread her legs wider, and rubbed his palm against her pussy.
“Breathe?”
“Breathe,” he said.
“Remind me every once in a while, Theo.”
“I’ll try. Are we good? Because I’m done with the talking thing, now.”
Theo stroked the pad of his thumb across the soft fabric of her panties directly above her clit. Evelina shivered. Already, the cotton line of her panties covering the slit of her sex was damp and hot. Theo wanted to feel her wet sex bare, and hear all her pretty little sounds. He bet Evelina sounded damn good when a man’s name was in her mouth, and she was begging.
“We’re good,” she said, a heat coloring up her tone.
“Good,” he echoed. “Do you like to beg for it, Eve?”
“Hmm?”
Theo slipped his thumb under the slip of her underwear and found the lips of her pussy wet to the touch. She was also smooth-skinned and trembling. Driving his thumb between the fleshy lips of her sex, he smeared the juices of her arousal up to her hard little clit, and then right back down to her sex.
Evelina froze under Theo’s weight. He refused to let her move from the glass doors as he touched and learned her body for as long as it took. What he wanted most was to see the perfect Evelina Conti lose a little bit of her control.
Even better if she lost it to him.
“Do you like to beg for it?” he repeated.
Evelina didn’t say a word.
“Have you ever begged for it, Eve? Ever found a man that made you so fu
cking wet, got your blood hot and your muscles aching without even touching you that you just wanted to beg him to fuck you? Has a man ever put you on your knees and made you ask for it? Have you found a man that made you want to get on your knees and ask for it? Tell me you’ve had the pleasure of looking up at a man and asking for him, Eve, begging to suck his cock or to be fucked good and hard because you wanted him that badly. Tell me.”
“I—”
“It’s a yes or no question, babe.”
Evelina’s eyes darkened. “Never.”
Theo cocked a brow. “That’s too bad.”
“But I think I might have found one now.”
Fucking perfect.
When his thumb slid back down from her clit again, Theo let the digit sink into Evelina’s tight, slick channel. Her sex hugged his thumb hard. It was just a touch—a taste. He could have added more, or fucked her sex harder with his fingers, but he just wanted to test her body, see her reactions, and hear her sounds.
“How’s this?” Theo asked. The silkiness of her arousal smeared to his palm. “Eve?”
Evelina’s teeth cut into her bottom lip as Theo thrust his thumb in and out of her sex with a measured slowness. Leaning down, he kissed the reddened, plump flesh of her lip and nudged her bite to release with his own mouth.
“Don’t do that,” Theo warned.
“W-why not?”
“Because then I can’t do it. I have a feeling you’ll like it when I bite your lip a hell of a lot more than when you do it.”
Theo punctuated his words by removing his thumb from her clenching pussy and slamming two fingers in just as fast. Evelina’s knees buckled at the new sensation, but Theo didn’t relent in the faster, harder pace as he forced her to stay upright against the window. Evelina gasped, her hips canting into Theo’s hand over and over.
“There, Eve. Feel that, babe? Christ, you’re fucking soaking me now.”
“God.”
Theo released Evelina’s hands and grabbed her chin just under her jaw. Her skin pinked under his roughness as he tilted her head up and back, looking down on her with heavy lidded eyes. Evelina didn’t seem to mind, and she didn’t shy away from his handling.
“Does it feel good?”
Evelina whined in the back of her throat. “Yes.”
“Are you going to come?”
She nodded, her eyes squeezing shut as her sex hugged him tighter.
“Words, Evelina. Use your fucking words.”
“Yes,” she groaned low, “yes, I’m going to come, Theo.”
“Eyes open and watch me when you come, Eve.”
His demand came out harsh and throaty. Evelina’s eyes flew wide instantly to find his. The very next moment, Theo learned forward and pressed his lips to hers, taking a kiss from her mouth that burned him all over.
He’d never chased a woman once before, but he had a long time ago with Evelina. She’d been worth the effort, even if he had stopped his conquest before anything had come of it.
So worth it.
She was fucking bellissima under his control like this. Sexy. Needy.
“Nothing like a princess,” Theo growled against her lips.
Evelina laughed but it melted into a breathless moan when Theo flicked his thumb up to drive into her clit in time with his fingers still stroking her pussy. Instantly, her juices seemed to flood his hand even more. Theo knew it then; he could feel the way her body clenched around him, like the muscles tightening in her stomach, and how her frame swayed.
“Shit … Theo!”
Theo caught Evelina’s bottom lip between his teeth and bit down hard. Her sharp mewl was high and broken as she came undone with tremors rocking her entire form. He always thought that sex worked well with a little bit of pain. The sting made the bliss that much better.
Releasing his bite on her lip, but keeping his hold on her throat, Theo slowed the thrusts of his fingers back to his previous measured, teasing rhythm.
“Oh my God,” Evelina breathed. “I … I can’t …”
“Sensitive,” Theo said for her. “You’re sensitive, but you can.”
He could feel the way her hips jerked every time he even grazed her pussy with the lightest touch. Theo didn’t relent. He liked her like this.
Wanting him. High on him.
Just like this.
“Theo … Theo, just …” Evelina’s words trailed off with a shuddering exhale. Her hips rolled into every gentle drive of his fingers. “I want …”
“Hmm?”
“Let me, Theo.”
Her body arched off the glass door, pressing to his. Theo could feel the way her stomach muscles tightened with her need to come again and how her nipples had hardened under her dress.
“Let you what, Eve?”
Theo didn’t really need to ask, he knew. She was close to orgasm again. Being sensitive like she was, he expected it. But instead of chasing that high, she wanted to give something to him.
Evelina wanted to beg for it. She was hot, trembling, and probably ached from her head to her toes. Theo didn’t need to hear her say any of those things because he knew just by looking at the desire swimming in her eyes.
“Eve?” he asked, his tone low and husky.
“I …” Her bottom lip, plump and red from his kiss and bite, found its way between her teeth again. Theo used the pad of his thumb to draw the tender flesh out.
“Tell me, Eve. Get on your knees and beg for it.”
She didn’t need to be told again. Just like that, Evelina dropped down to the ground on shaky legs. Theo’s hand slipped out from between her legs as her fingers coasted over the line of his erection through his pants and down his thighs. She grabbed him tight, her sweet nails digging into his skin through his slacks.
Evelina looked up at him, her eyes wide but dark, and her lashes fanning her lids. Theo’s mouth went dry. He couldn’t remember a time when a woman had looked quite as good as Evelina did when she was on her knees.
“Do it,” he said, his throat tight.
His cock downright ached.
Evelina reached for his belt.
“Do it,” Theo repeated.
She wet her lips, still watching him silently. Theo let her work his belt until it was hanging loose and her quick fingers were undoing his button and zipper. Evelina pushed his pants and boxers down around his hips until his cock sprung free. Evelina didn’t say a word, simply grabbed the base of his shaft and squeezed with enough pressure to make Theo’s blood thicken.
“Shit,” he hissed when her fingernail glided down his length. Shivers of pleasure danced down his spine, chasing the sting of her nail pressing into his sensitive cock. Theo loved it. He wanted more of it. He was pleased that Evelina hadn’t forgotten what he told her that day in the café. “You remembered, huh?”
Evelina’s lips arched sinfully. “Like black coffee, right?”
“Harsh, hot, and a little bit of pain, babe.”
“Do you want me to beg for it, Theo?”
“Of course. Anything worth having is worth working for, as the saying goes. And I’d love to hear the kind of music you can make, so hurry up and get on that, Eve.”
Her fingernail slid down his length again as she stroked his cock from tip to base.
“Be nice,” she warned.
Where had this girl come from all of a sudden?
Theo liked it a lot.
When she opened her mouth again to say something, Theo traced her bottom lip with the fingers he’d used to fuck her. Evelina took the digits into her mouth without question, her tongue flattening to his skin and then licking all the way around to clean them of her taste and come. With his free hand, he rooted her in place by fisting her hair tight in his grip.
“Tell me what I want to hear, Eve, and I’ll let you have a taste.”
Evelina released his fingers with a soft sigh that came off needy and sweet. “Please, Theo.”
“Hmm? Better, louder.”
Her tongue snaked out, hitting
the head of his cock with a wet heat that seared him instantly. Theo kept his stance firm, refusing to move or release her hair so she could try and get more of him in her mouth. It damn near killed him to do it. He wanted to see Evelina sucking him off and then he wanted to find the closest flat surface that he could to bend her over and fuck her hard.
“You’re making me wait here, Eve, and that isn’t a good thing.”
Evelina met his gaze again, unashamed and beautiful. “I want to taste you, Theo, please. Let me taste you.”
Theo grinned and loosened his grip on her hair. “One more time, Eve.”
“Please.”
It was a whisper that practically crawled over every inch of Theo’s skin. Breathless, thick, and desperate. That’s how Evelina sounded on her knees in front of him. Nothing had ever sounded quite so good before. With her lips parted, her eyes hazy and hooded like she was drunk on her want for him and nothing else, it was perfect.
Dangerous for him.
Bad because Theo knew he wanted to see her like this again.
But still perfect.
“There we are,” Theo said, tugging her hair and bringing her closer to his cock. The heat of her warm breath washed over his length and he ached to feel her soft lips take him in. “Suck me off, Eve. I don’t have to tell you how I like it, do I?”
“No. I think I know.”
Hot and hard.
Theo felt the silkiness of her lips on the head of his dick before Evelina took him in her mouth. It was just a fraction of a second, her lips tightening to his cock, teeth scraping along his shaft, and her tongue flicking into the throbbing vein, but it was enough to make him shudder and groan.
Evelina’s hand tightened around the base as she sucked harder, keeping her gaze locked on his all the while. Theo swore under his breath, deciding to let her do whatever it was she wanted. She’d clearly wanted a taste of him and he didn’t mind providing that. Evelina’s free hand crawled up his stomach under his dress shirt. Her nails scored into his abdominal muscles the harder she sucked on his cock. Every time she would come back to the head of his cock, her teeth would graze the tip. It gave him just enough of a shock to send sparks bursting straight down into his balls while her tongue lapped up the precum leaking from his dick.