Brick Brick (Knights Corruption MC - Next Generation, #4) - S. Nelson Page 0,20

think so.” He rose off the bed and prowled toward me, exciting me and making me nervous at the same time. “I don’t have anything in common with your friends. Remember last time?”

The incident he referred to was when we’d been out shopping and ran into Whitney, a colleague I’d worked with in London, who’d come to California for business for a few days. She looked Brick up and down and the superior air she put on wasn’t fake. She was a snob and often made comments about people who looked a certain way or who didn’t have as much money. She even made some comment about Brick being my bodyguard, because otherwise why would I be seen with him.

He’d wandered off to the side to give us a moment together, but he heard what she said. I corrected her, and she laughed, playing the whole thing off like a joke. But the damage was done. On the ride back to his house, he’d been silent, going to bed earlier than normal without so much as a kiss good night. Thankfully, he was in a better mood the following morning, and I knew better than to bring up the incident again.

“She wasn’t a friend. Besides, who cares what anyone thinks? I don’t.”

“But you will. Eventually.” He reached down and grabbed my hands, running his thumbs over the tops, his touch soothing. His nostrils flared slightly while he looked lost inside his own head.

“I won’t.” I didn’t know what else to say, but instead of pressing the issue right now, I erased the small space between us, pulled my hands from his and wrapped them around his waist. His skin was warm against mine and all I wanted to do was climb his large form and wrap every part of me around him. “Do you want me to make you some breakfast?”

“No.” His expression flattened and for a moment I feared he was going to push me away, more so mentally than physically. “But I do want to eat somethin’.” The quick arrowing of his brow told me everything.

“I think we should wait another day or so.”

“I’ve waited long enough, woman.” He untangled my hands and practically dragged me toward the bed, pinning me beneath him with a knee on either side of my waist once I was flat on my back. Then he reached down the side and grabbed the shackle connected to his headboard, restraining my left wrist before moving to the right. They were leather manacles with a fleece lining, preventing any sort of damage when I tugged against them. “I’ll leave your legs unbound because I want them wrapped around me.” I tested the restraints, and of course, there was no way of escaping.

Not that I wanted to.

8

I had no right to tell her she couldn’t do something. But jealousy struck me as soon as I saw a man’s name flash across her phone, and even though she said he was just a friend, I struggled to contain the baser emotion.

“I like you like this,” I said, staring at the way her nipples tightened with my perusal, and the way she couldn’t stop shifting on the bed. I wanted to lick, suck, and bite every inch of her creamy flesh.

I wanted to worship her.

I wanted to devour her.

I wanted to climb inside her and never leave.

“Are you just going to stand there or are you going to make a move, big man?” Her teeth toyed with the corner of her bottom lip and I wanted to snatch it back with my own.

“Spread your legs.”

“Take off your pants,” she countered.

“You first.”

“As you can see, I’m not wearing any.”

“You know what I mean. Let me see all of you.”

She did as I commanded, so in fairness, I gave her what she wanted as well. Standing before her naked, I loved the way she visually appreciated my body. Her skin flushed the most gorgeous shade of pink as her breathing grew heavier.

“Like what you see?” I asked.

“You know I do.”

“Even with these scars?” My question wasn’t meant to be serious but when the words left my mouth, a twinge of self-consciousness went with them.

“Even more now because you survived.” Her smile widened, erasing any anxiety I held, no matter how small, about my marred physique.

This would be the first time in nearly two weeks I’d been able to feast on Zoe’s body, and I wanted to take my time, but I also wanted to sink inside her and fuck her