Soulless Knight

by Violet Paige

  Knight nipped at my lips. His eyes sparkled with mischief. God, I loved seeing him happy.

  “Hey you.” He grinned.

  “Hey,” I murmured softly. Was he glowing like I was? Did men do that? It sure as hell looked like it from this angle. I touched the side of his brow. He was drenched in sweat.

  “Want to try out that tub in there?”

  “That means we have to move.” I pouted. “I don’t think it’s possible.” The weight of him made it hard to breathe, but I didn’t want to budge. This felt good.

  He chuckled. “You don’t have to move. I’ll do all the lifting for you.”

  Before I knew what he was doing, Knight had collected me from the bed and strolled through the bathroom door. He kicked it open.

  “See?”

  I laughed. My arms draped around his neck. “This could be the start of something very complicated, you know that?”

  He spun the handles on the tub. It began to fill. The idea of soaking in the tub was soothing. Our bodies were sore. I wanted to soak until my fingers were pruned and the water was tepid.

  “It’s only as complicated as we make it,” he responded.

  I considered his answer. We had missed the middle, but maybe we were still the beginning and the end. Maybe Knight was right. We didn’t have to make it complicated.

  I couldn’t imagine either of us was willing to walk away from what we had just unleashed.

  23

  Knight

  I used to sleep in. Those were the mornings that followed nights of endless drinking and partying. Now I set my alarm for 5:30 so I could run or fit in a trip to the gym before going to the office. It was my new routine in Paris. One I adopted after turning thirty. It seemed more significant than New Year’s resolutions or bucket lists. Just get up and fucking run.

  This morning I made an exception. I awakened with Kennedy in my arms. Her skin was warm. Her lips were pink. Her body was fucking incredible. After last night, it was mine. She was mine. She always should have been. I was too scared and stupid five years ago to do what I should have done.

  We’d be ruling the city together now. She’d be my queen. Mine.

  I grinned, thinking of what we had forged in this bed. We were bonded. Bound together. We had fused our bodies into one, and it was not like anything I’d known. Kennedy wasn’t like other women I’d known.

  She stirred, sliding her torso over my chest. God damn, when her nipples brushed over my ribs my cock ached. It was hard in five seconds, growing longer. Screaming at me to take her. She smiled lazily when she realized I was watching her.

  “Good morning.”

  “Good morning.” I gripped her hips, drawing the rest of her on top of me. I wanted her to know just how damn wild her body drove me.

  “Ohh,” she whispered, sliding over my dick.

  I hissed as her hips moved back and forth. She was wet. My fingers dug into her waist, urging her to move back and forth. Farther until I was inside her. I wanted her sweet pussy, bare. Just a taste. Just a second.

  Kennedy pressed off my chest, tilting her hips and I thrust upward. We both groaned at the intensity. Skin on skin. She plucked her nipples as the sunlight streamed through the windows. I hadn’t bothered to close the blackout drapes last night.

  “Fuck me,” I commanded as she began to ride faster. Her mouth parting with pants and coos. “That’s it.”

  But I didn’t know how long I could last watching her fuck me this way. I wrapped my hands around her waist and with a quick maneuver, planted her on her stomach.

  “Knight,” she hissed at me. I had ruined her perfect rhythm. I’d reward her in time for making the sacrifice.

  I kissed behind her ear, as I caressed and massaged her ass. She began to wiggle and shake her hips as I raised her ass higher in the air. I groped her cheeks, squeezing them roughly.

  “Shit,” she murmured. “That feels good.”

  I grinned as I positioned myself behind her. Her head whipped to the side.

  “I love fucking you, Kennedy,” I growled.

  My cock slammed into her with a powerful thrust and Kennedy yelped. Her hands quickly reaching for the headboard. There was no holding back. I pounded against her flesh. I pumped in and out. She threw her hips back, matching each thrust with one of her own.

  “Yes,” she cried as we lost our damn minds. “Don’t. You. Stop,” she demanded as I watched her disappear into an orgasm. The way her body succumbed to her ecstasy was something to watch. The trembling began to take over. I was going to come like this if I didn’t slow down. The condoms were in my pocket on the floor. Shit. I couldn’t pull away. Not while she was coming on my cock. Squeezing it. Coating it with heat and pleasure.

  I pumped in and out. Sliding against her tight pussy walls. Fuck. Me.

  She glanced over her shoulder, sucking on her lip, watching me take her from behind. My chest tightened at the same time the base of my spine began to sing with electrical pulses. The instinct to bury everything I had inside her was hard to fight.

  One gush before I was able to pull out. I groaned, fisting my shaft as I came on her back. Kennedy panted, slowing from the orgasm. Our bodies stilled. Our breathing was heavy.

  “Don’t move. I’ll grab a towel.” I hopped off the side of the bed and returned. She hadn’t changed positions.

  “Thanks,” she whispered as I cleaned her back. I followed the lines of her hips. I cupped her gorgeous ass.

  “Damn, Kennedy. Your body…” I didn’t even know how to finish that sentence.

  She rolled on her back, rolling her wrists back and forth. “Thank you?”

  I chuckled, tossing the towel across the room.

  “What time is it?” she asked.

  “I’m not sure. Early? Who the hell knows?” I wanted to pounce on her again. I felt giddy like I was seventeen.

  She pushed forward. “I need to check my voicemails. I had messages last night I ignored. I have a legal meeting today. I can’t stay in bed. Renee’s expecting me.”

  “What kind of legal meetings?” I pried.

  “It’s about a casino I’m building. I’ve run into legislative issues.”

  The giddy feeling sank into a pit. Fuck. I wasn’t going to admit what I had done. It was business. I had to rebuild everything my father lost. I had to restore the fortune. Reclaim our name. We were New Orleans royalty. Everything I did for the organization was to protect the Corban legacy. For now, that secret was safe. I was sorry that she wasn’t going to get what she wanted this time. I couldn’t let the Crescent Towers project happen.

  “Let’s skip everything we planned. Order room service. Drive to the beach. Whatever we can do to ignore real life.”

  She laughed. “Funny. I run a multi-billion-dollar organization. I don’t have days off. Hand me my phone? If I don’t check in with Kimble in the next few minutes he will freak out and show up with a gun pointed at your face.”

  “He always points a gun at my face.”

  She shrugged. “True. It’s his job.”

  I strolled to the foyer table and walked back through the suite with her phone.

  “We are going to have breakfast.” I eyed her.

  “I need my phone.”

  “Breakfast?”

  She sighed. “Yes, breakfast.” She smiled slyly.

  I handed her her purse and walked to the bathroom while she checked in with her bodyguard. I brushed my teeth and started the shower.

  I cracked the door. “Join me?”

  She nodded. The phone was pressed to her ear. “Just a few more minutes,” she mouthed.

  “I’ll start without you.” I winked, closing the door so the steam could collect inside.

  I stepped inside the shower. The water felt good. So did the bath last night. We had talked for hours. Had tub sex. More sex. Talked again until we fell asleep.

  I lathered the soap between my palms. I kept watching the door, waiting for Kennedy. I thought I heard the outside door slam. I turned off
the water and grabbed a towel.

  I stepped from the glass enclosure and wrapped the towel around my waist. “Kennedy, what’s taking so long?”

  I stared at the bed. It was empty. I wandered to the kitchen. She wasn’t in the suite. I spotted the brass key on the table by the front door. Next to it was the necklace. I lifted it in the air. The diamonds sparkled around the pearl. The inscription swung back and forth. Carpe Noctem. We had done that last night. More than once.

  There was a note scribbled on the hotel stationary, pinned to the hotel latch on the door. What was going on? I yanked it off the lock.

  I know it’s you. You’re BONO.

  That was all it said. I clasped the pearl in my hand. Shit. How did she find out? Paul had combined a shell company on top of shell company to protect the PAC’s identity.

  The water from the shower puddled at my feet. I closed my eyes. She wasn’t coming back to the suite. That note might as well have been a death threat. She was going to come after me with everything she had.

  I had to be ready.

  I needed a plan to get her back.

  Continue the rest of Knight and Kennedy’s story in Loveless Knight.

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