I took in the red tinge staining his cheeks, and then I leaned a fraction closer and said, “That offer’s a really nice one. Really, it is, but I would’ve preferred it at around three o’clock this morning. Now, not so much.”
When I flashed him a biting grin to accompany my final fuck you and good night, I turned on my heel, ready to get away from him before I did something really stupid. I was almost home free, until Halo grabbed hold of my arm and tugged me back around to face him.
“Is that what this is all about? Me leaving last night?” he demanded, and when I didn’t answer, Halo shoved me in the arm and said, “Is it?”
And something inside me just…exploded.
“Yes,” I shouted, and the volume had Halo’s eyes widening and his mouth falling open. While he was caught off guard, I grabbed hold of his wrist and yanked him in until there was barely a millimeter separating us.
Halo blinked, those gorgeous eyes of his conveying his surprise but also his…arousal, and I lowered my head so my lips ghosted over his and said, “I wasn’t done with you yet.”
Halo sucked in a breath as a shudder racked his body, and when he flicked his tongue over his lower lip, that was it. A rough groan left my throat as I took his lips with mine in a brutal mating of the mouths. It wasn’t gentle, it wasn’t sweet, but when Halo opened for me and I drove my tongue inside to find his, it was exactly the way it should be.
Raw, hot, and sexy as all hell.
I let go of Halo’s wrist and cupped the back of his neck, fusing our mouths together in a savage kiss that went from a wicked-hot flame to a blazing inferno in the space of seconds.
Halo grabbed hold of my shirt, balling the material in his fists as I walked him inside the guesthouse and kicked the door shut behind me. Fuck holding back. Fuck second-guessing myself. If he wasn’t as into this as I was, then he would’ve put a halt to it by now. But as I leaned back against the door, Halo stepped between my legs and thrust his hips up against mine, a low moan rumbling from his throat.
“Fuckin’ hell, Angel,” I said, and tore my mouth free, and when my eyes found his, they were creased at the corners. He smiled at me as he rocked his hips forward again.
“So I’m Angel again, huh?”
“What?”
Halo chuckled. “You’re calling me Angel again. So…this mood of yours, it’s ’cause I left this morning?”
My breathing was coming faster now, harder as Halo ran his hands down the front of my shirt and slipped them up under it. His lips were teasing across mine as his fingers played up and down my rigid abdomen.
“Viper?”
I grunted in response—it was about all my brain could come up with—and Halo’s lips curved in a grin that was all power, all sex, and just about had my knees buckling.
“If I’d known you were going to be in such a foul mood from me leaving your bed, I would’ve stayed,” Halo said. “Last night was the hottest”—he nipped at my jaw line—“sexiest”—he sucked on my earlobe—“night I’ve ever had. I just assumed you’d want me gone the next morning.”
I put my hands in his hair and pulled the elastic there free. As those golden curls fell down around his face, I grabbed hold of his ass, shoved forward from the door, and walked him across the room until his legs hit the back of the mattress. Then I raised my head to look down into his sex-hazed eyes.
“How about you stop making assumptions. Hmm? If I want you out of my bed, I’ll tell you.”
Halo’s eyes flared, and his fingers dug into my waist, and then I was urging him back on the mattress. Back on the sheets that smelled like him. Back to the place where I’d lost myself inside him, and I’d been left feeling forever changed.
Six
Halo
MY HEAD SPUN as my ass hit Viper’s bed. I’d followed after him, expecting an argument, considering the mood he’d been in all day. Instead, I found myself in the same place I’d been last night, watching and anticipating as Viper removed his shirt and threw it on the floor.
My heart beat wildly as I took in the savage look on his face, the one that told me that he wasn’t letting me get away so easily this time.
“This is where you belong,” Viper said in a voice that stroked my cock as effectively as I knew his hand could.
I nodded as I kicked my shoes off and scooted back on the bed, and as Viper placed his hands on the edge of the mattress, he said, “Where you should’ve been when I woke up…”