gentle, his fingers moving in a restless way that felt really good.
His other hand slid to her lower back, and he tugged her in tight to his body. She gasped into his mouth when she felt a hard ridge against her belly. She’d never thought much about that part of a man’s body, not even when Azel had taken her during feeding. She’d felt nothing, had just been glad that he was taking his payment so he wouldn’t use it against her later.
Now she was…curious.
She pushed her body against him as well, and when that didn’t appease her curiosity, she reached down and cupped his thick length.
He jerked back with a hiss.
She froze. “Sorry, I’m not sure why I did that. I was just…I was curious.”
He was doing that fast breathing thing again.
“It’s fine.” He was trembling harder as well. “I wasn’t expecting it, that’s all. But I think we should take things slow, yeah?”
“What things?” she said as she moved back in, resting her hands on his chest because she needed to touch him.
“I’ll explain, I promise.” His gaze was dark again and searched hers. “Did you like it, the second kiss?”
“Yeah, I liked it.” Like wasn’t anywhere near a big enough word, though. She wanted to make him understand. “I felt zaps all over my body, but they were really good zaps. My nipples are still tingling and between my thighs is…”
“I think I should take you back to your room now,” he growled low.
“Why? I want to keep kissing. I thought you liked it, too?” she said, unable to hold anything back or filter her words.
He groaned, and it sounded pained. “I do. I want to keep kissing you as well, love, I can’t tell you how much I want that. But yeah, we need to take it slow, and we need to talk before this goes any farther. So tonight, you’ll go back to your room, and tomorrow we’ll talk, okay?”
She had no idea what he was talking about. He was serious, though, but honestly, all she could think about was him telling her that he wanted to keep kissing her. “Are you sure we can’t keep kissing?”
He muttered a curse, took her hand, and led her out into the hall and back to her room. When they got there, he leaned in and pressed his lips to hers again, giving her a kiss that wasn’t a friend kiss but wasn’t like the one they’d had in his apartment either. It was really nice, but she still wanted another one of those deep kisses.
“When we get back tomorrow night, we’ll talk,” he said to her.
“What about?”
He chuckled. “I’ll tell you tomorrow when we get back.”
“Hmm.” She’d be worried if he didn’t look so happy about whatever they needed to talk about. “Will I like this conversation you have planned?”
He chuckled again and pressed a kiss to her forehead, which should probably feel like a friend kiss, but didn’t either. “I fucking hope so.”
“Fine, I’ll wait.”
He took a step back, grinning. “Night, love.”
“Night, Gunner.”
He grinned wider, then backed up several more steps, turned, and walked away.
Luna watched until he disappeared into the stairwell.
Then she forced herself to go inside her room and not run after him and beg for more of his wonderful kisses.
Chapter 18
Luna watched Grace carefully and tried to imitate her moves.
The other demi in the room didn’t seem to be having any trouble following her instruction.
Grace did a combination of punches, followed by a kick. Luna tried and almost fell on her ass. The other female had come to her room earlier and asked if she wanted to join them training. The idea of being able to defend herself sounded damn good. But so far, she absolutely sucked at it.
Mia, who was closest to her, gave her a little nudge with her elbow. “You’re doing great, seriously. We all fell on our asses when we first started this class.”
Luna wasn’t so sure about that. Mia was probably just trying to be kind. And as Grace ran through the next combination of moves, her anger and frustration grew.
Her face heated when she stumbled again. What the hell was she doing here?
You’re making sure you’ll never be controlled and used ever again.
Yeah, well, it sounded good in theory. It was the in-practice part she was failing miserably at.
She looked down in surprise when Mia curled her fingers around Luna’s and tugged her toward the back of the room. “I’ll show you.”