The Love Contract (Sizzle & Burn Book 3)

by Linda Verji

  “Alvina,” he groaned low and long against her breast even as his cock jerked against her leg. His open mouth moved away from her breast back up to fasten on hers in a deep, dark kiss that left her shivering. When he dragged his lips from hers, she stared at him, astounded by how one man could leave her feeling so needy, so desperate.

  But Orion wasn’t even looking at her. His full attention was on his hand as it drifted down her torso, caressing her tummy before shifting lower down over her mound. Even though there was fabric between his hand and her pussy, the trembling, shivering feeling in her belly heightened. When he cupped and squeezed her over her shorts, she almost screamed in desperate pleasure.

  His mouth came back over hers again – but this time she was the one who pulled away the kiss. She wanted to see what he was going to do. His hand lowered to the button of her shorts. She tried to swallow as she watched him unbutton her shorts, but found it to be a difficult task. Heck, she was surprised that she could’ve breathe going by how tight her chest felt.

  He dragged the zipper of her shorts down. When his hands slid his hand in, her lips parted in breathless anticipation. Then he his bare hand was on her pussy. Vina gave a start and abruptly lifted her head.

  Orion held her gaze as his fingers parted her pussy lips. Slowly, he slicked her wetness over her folds before dragging his fingers upwards. Vina shuddered when his fingers brushed over her trembling nub, yet she was unable to look away from him. Holding her captivity with the intensity of his eyes, he flicked her clit.

  “Aaah!” Vina closed her eyes as electric pleasure zipped through her. The sensations became even more powerful as he started to work her. Stroking, flicking, caressing… Urgent desire burnt through her senses until all she could do was moan his name.

  Then he dipped in. Gasping, she met his eyes again.

  “You like that?” he asked as he slowly withdrew his finger from her hot, slick moistness then slid back in again. Of course she liked it. Her hands clenched reflexively in response, digging into his chest and knee.

  He dragged his finger out of her pussy then pushed it in again, over and over, sliding in, sliding out, kindling heat inside her. And when she thought she couldn’t bear it anymore he added a second finger. Oh, that felt good. So damn good. She spread her thighs so he had more space to move, pumped her hips into his hand, threw her head back and moaned with each excruciating stroke.

  His sudden rise to his feet caught her by surprise, and she would’ve tumbled to the floor if he wasn’t holding her. Startled, she lifted her gaze to him and found his face a mask of stormy desire. Before she could ask what he was doing, she was in his arms, being carried bridal style into the bedroom.

  “Orion!” she yelped when he practically threw her onto the bed. His intense, almost angry expression stopped her from saying anything more. With one yank, he dragged her shorts and panties down her legs. Next was his t-shirt; he drew the fabric up and over his head in a flash. Once he was naked from the waist up, he crawled to her until his head was between her thighs.

  For the next several moments, Vina couldn’t think. She couldn’t even breathe. The way his mouth touched her, the way his tongue flicked over her nub, the way he suckled, the slow but thorough stab of his finger within her while his tongue worked her clit…

  “Oh…my… jeez.” She shifted restlessly on the bed, her thighs automatically spreading so he could do more. Her soft pants echoed in the room as pleasure after pleasure cascaded her. Good heavens! The man knew how to toy with a woman’s body. He slowly lapped at her, teasing her clit with erotic strokes that left her dizzy with desire and aching for his release. His fingers felt like a small cock, pushing in, pulling out, penetrating her, fucking her.

  It was too much. The sensations streaking through her were so intense that her whole body began to shake. Her orgasm hit her with the speed of a freight train. It was so powerful all she could do was push her fingers into his silky hair and hold on as wave after of excruciatingly blissful pleasure pounded into her.

  As the fireworks lit up within her, Orion continued to lick and stroke her. It was only when she collapsed boneless back to earth that he inched his way back to her lips. His lips moved slowly on hers, his pace unhurried and lingering as his breath mingled with hers. But it was the feel of his body against hers that dragged her from the contentment of her release.

  His chest was smooth and hot against hers. His muscles rippled and played against her body, kindling fresh heat through her. Her pussy rode his still clothed cock, making her aware of his blatant arousal. They couldn’t have that now, could they? Abruptly, she shoved him off her and onto his back.

  Orion’s startled gaze flew to meet hers when she clambered over his supine body to straddle him. She smiled. “Your turn.”

  CHAPTER 16

  Orion was about to die. Seriously, he was going to die if Vina didn’t stop toying with him. With hooded eyes, he watched as her fingers glided over the bulge covered by his boxers. He wanted to yell at her to get him out of his boxers, to stroke him for real but he couldn’t because she had completely under her spell.

  Lightly, she trailed her fingers along the length of his cock, from root to tip then back up again kept him silent. He was enthralled by how completely in the moment she was, eager to see what she’d do next. In slow motion, she pulled back the flap of his boxers and her hand dipped in.

  Damn! Orion groaned when she caressed him then gently squeezed. He lifted up onto his elbows so he could watch her better as she finally took him out of his cage. He was fully erect, standing proud and harder than he’d ever been. When Vina wrapped her small hand around his revealed length, he had to close his eyes and take a deep breath.

  Slowly, she stroked her hand up and down his shaft. When a pearl of liquid gathered at his tip, she slicked it over him. He growled low in his throat, a sound of approval. He’d almost forgotten how it felt to have a woman’s firm touch on him but Vina was doing an excellent job of reminding him.

  When she gently squeezed him, an involuntary sharp breath pushed its way past his lips. “Vina.”

  Immediately, she stopped stroking. His eyes flew open in protest and he found her watching him with nervous eyes. “Did I hurt you?”

  “No.” He shook his head. God no! Her touch was the furthest thing from pain. It was pleasure personified. Her hands moved up to the waistband of his boxers and he obediently raised his lower body so she could drag them down his legs. Then he was naked.

  And that’s when the real torture began.

  “Shit!” he cussed low in his throat as his fingers shifted in her hair and dug into her skull. Her lush lips were driving him crazy; sucking, suctioning, licking, drawing him deep in then dragging their way back up to his tip. In, out, she suckled him like he was the sweetest of candies while her hand took care of what she couldn’t fit into her mouth. If he wasn’t already insanely aroused, the sight of her so obviously enjoying the task of pleasuring him would’ve done it for him.

  Pleasure lit within him, singed all other thoughts except that he wanted more of this. So much more. His hands tense in her scalp as his knees lifted off the bed to push more of his cock into her mouth. In. Out. In. Out. Fuck! His seed was boiling, threatening to flood her at any moment. He couldn’t let that happen – not now. He wanted to be inside her – deep inside her when he erupted.

  “Orion,” Vina gasped when he flipped their positions so she was the one lying on the bed. Taking advantage of her surprise, he turned away from her and reached for a condom from his nightstand. Strapping up took only a few seconds and soon he was back with her.

  He pushed her thighs apart unceremoniously and knelt between them. He dragged her closer so that her thighs were draped over his guiding his penis into her. Slowly, he pushed, parted and breached her. Sliding into her was like a hand slowly filling a glove.

  A glove that was meant just for him.

  How could she say they were fake when they fit so perfectly together? Was this desire t
hrobbing between them not real enough for her? Vina’s high little mew, so sweet and feminine, punctuated his harsh breathing as he relentlessly drove into her. Her muscles clenched around his thickness, griping, holding him tight and dragging him deeper in. His eyes fell helplessly and he groaned as he finally slid home.

  VINA MOANED WHEN he settled deep inside her. It was ridiculous how easy it was for Orion to drive her into mindless lust with a single touch. The only consolation was that he seemed unable to control himself just as she was. As much as she wanted to call this just sex, it felt realer than that. And yet she couldn’t bring herself to care. All she could think about was how much she wanted him and how good he made her feel.

  Their eyes held as he began to thrust into her. Ah, that felt amazing. His huge cock felt like soft steel thrusting into her, filling her, scraping against every nerve inside her and sending need soaring through her. As pleasure overwhelmed her, her eyes started to drift shut.

  “No.” Orion immediately stopped moving. “Open your eyes.”

  Her eyes flew open to meet his. His dark gaze was hooded and shadowed with the same intense, sensual lust that was racing through her. It held hers hostage, never once wavering as he slowly sunk into her then withdrew, sunk in then withdrew. Long, thick, hard… he taunted her with his rod and forced her to look at him as he did so.

  The intensity of the moment was too much for her. She grabbed his hands and dragged him down to her. His lips met hers in a hard, almost violent kiss. Their mouths crashed into each other and their tongues lashed against each other as he pumped in and out of her.

  More. Whimpering against his lips, she hooked her legs around his flanks so he could go even deeper into her. There. Right there. His engorged cock sunk in almost touching her the roof of her womb.

  “Uh! Uh! Uh!” she cried, her moans matching his rhythmic and steady thrusts.

  “That’s it, sweetheart,” Orion growled, the endearment falling naturally from his lips. Steadily, he pounded into her. “Scream for me.”

  And she did. Her cries started low in her throat and grew louder and higher with each stroke. Liquid fire pulsed through every nerve in her body as he drove her closer and closer to the peak. His strokes became faster, harder, more focused towards their end goal. And then….

  “Oh…my… aah!” Vina shuttered into a million little pieces. Hand to heart, she saw stars; bright, shimmery stars that glowed behind her closed eyes as she floated up into her release. Her pussy contracted around him, milking him and dragging him right into the abyss along with her. With a groan, he convulsed inside her.

  VINA FELL ASLEEP soon after. Even though it was only mid-afternoon, Orion had wrung her dry and she felt wonderfully exhausted. He must’ve been just as tired as her because he molded himself along her back, slung his arm around her waist and fell asleep.

  When she came awake again, the room was much darker. Instinctively, she knew that she was late for her appointment with her mother. They’d agreed to meet at around four to shop for the week’s groceries but judging by the shadows in the room, it was closer to six than four.

  She glanced behind her and found Orion asleep on his stomach with the covers pushed to his waist as if it was too hot. Careful not to make any noise, she clambered off the bed and tiptoed around the room picking up her discarded clothes. He stirred when she opened the door but didn’t awaken.

  It was only once she was outside his bedroom that she took her first easy breath. First things first, she raced to her phone and found a missed call from Na-ri. She dialed, and the moment her mother picked up, she started with an apology. “Eomma, I’m so sorry. I’m late, aren’t I?”

  “It’s okay,” her mom responded. “When you didn’t pick up your phone I assumed something important had come up.”

  Instant guilt flashed through Vina, and she apologized again, “Sorry, mom. I really didn’t mean to skip out on you. I should’ve at least called to let you know I’d be late. Should we meet right now?”

  “No need,” Na-ri reassured her. “I’ve already gone and come back. I just went with the driver.”

  Vina wished her mother would at least berate her for leaving her hanging, but she knew that the older woman wouldn’t. She couldn’t remember a time when her mother had ever raised her voice to scold her. Maybe this was Na-ri’s way for compensating for Min-kyu’s over-critical ways or maybe it was her fear of confrontation that kept her from speaking up even against her own daughter. Vina sighed. No wonder her father and grandmother treated Na-ri so badly. They knew that she’d never speak up against them.

  After she ended her phone call with her mother, Vina dressed up. Even though she no longer had an appointment, it made no sense whatsoever to keep hanging out at Orion’s place. Their date for the week was already over. However, she was strangely reluctant to just walk away.

  There was just something about Orion that seemed to melt all the walls she’d put up to keep out members of the other sex from getting too close. Instinctively, she understood that this ability was something she needed to be alarmed about and that her best response was to cut ties with him. And yet, she couldn’t. Her heart wouldn’t let her. Whenever she even thought of walking away, real pain stabbed through her. She didn’t know what he’d done to her, but she didn’t like it.

  She’d just finished dressing when the door to his bedroom creaked open. A moment later, Orion walked out. He was already sexy enough but in his disheveled state he was heart-stopping. His well-developed and mouth-watering chest muscles shimmered with every stride he took. His sweatpants rode low on his hip drawing attention to the thin arrow of hair that disappeared teasingly beneath his waistband. Even the way his hair stood on end was sexy.

  A slow, lazy smile lifted his lips when he saw her. “You’re still here.”

  “But I’m just about to leave,” she said, putting on her jacket.

  He frowned. “Already?”

  “Yeah.” She nodded. “I have some stuff to do.”

  His brow knotted as if he was conflicted over whether to let her go or to convince her to stay but, thankfully, he offered, “Just let me put something on and I’ll drive you home.”

  “You don’t need to do that,” Vina said as she slung her purse over her arm. “I can take a cab.”

  “I’m not letting you go home in a cab.” Orion’s tone was as determined as the glint in his eyes. She wasn’t going to win this argument.

  Vina surrendered with a smile. Fifteen minutes later, they were on their way to her place. He tried to get her to let him drop her off right at the doorstep, but this time she put her foot down.

  “No, thank you.” She shook her head.

  “But they’ll think that it’s odd that I dropped you off at the gate instead of getting in,” Orion protested.

  “Let them think what they want, but you’re not going past this gate. Nope. No way.” She shook her head. “If you do, you know you’ll have to come into the house and say hello. And if you do that, they’ll probably hound us for a wedding date.”

  Ever since Orion’s visit last week, her family had been dropping very unsubtle hints that they were ready for a wedding. Dooshim had taken to dropping bridal magazines around the house and asking her what kind of dresses she liked. Min-kyu, meanwhile, was more interested in the financial side. He’d even asked her to prepare a budget for the gifts she’d be taking to her marital home. Marital home? The thought was enough to make her tremble.

  There was no way she was letting Orion into their house.

  CHAPTER 17

  Weeks passed and their relationship changed exponentially. Although their initial agreement still hang over their head, their relationship was now so much more than just an agreement. They were now something between friends, lovers and partners. Their once-a week dates had now become ‘let’s meet when we feel like it’, and they always felt like it. Nightly phone calls had also become par for the course. They often spent the hours before bed talking… sometimes, Orion couldn’t even rem
ember what they’d talked about when he woke up the next day, just that they’d talked.

  If that wasn’t a real relationship then he didn’t know what was.

  Unfortunately, he still didn’t know what Vina thought of their changed dynamic. Did she think that they were still within the boundaries of their agreement? Or did she know that they’d already crossed it and was okay with it? A braver man would’ve dared to ask her directly but as Orion had recently discovered, he was quite a coward when it came to Alvina Song. He was treading on egg-shells around her, too afraid to confront her about who they were to each other and where their relationship was going for fear that he might spook her into running.

  “What are you thinking so hard about?” Vina asked, threading her arm into his.

  “Nothing really.” Smiling down at her, he said, “Just wondering what the heck I’m doing here.”

  “You’re here to be scared.” Grinning, Vina led him towards the gates of the park where the city’s annual Scream Fest was being held.

  “By what?” Orion snorted. “Men dressed in black dresses and masks?”

  “Snort all you want, but I bet that when one of those Grim Reapers comes gunning for you, you’ll be screaming like a little girl.”

  “We’ll see.” Offering her an indulgent smile, he commented, “I still don’t get why you love this festival so much. Who enjoys being scared?”

  “I do.” Vina shrugged as they stopped at the gate. “Halloween’s my favorite day of the year.”

  “Really?” He made a face. “I thought most women lived for Valentine’s Day.”

  “You obviously don’t know many women,” she mumbled as she rifled through her purse. A moment later, she frowned. “Where are those tickets?”

  “Please don’t tell me we came all this way and you forgot our tickets.” Orion arched his neck to see what was in her purse

  “No, I p-” A triumphant grin split her face as she pulled out the tickets from one of the pockets in her purse. “Here they are.”