and placed my hands on her shoulders. She was still working through the music for Whatever You Want when I started kneading her shoulders, inching toward her neck.
“It’s still not right,” she sighed.
“It doesn’t have to be. I just like listening to you play. It’s the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard.”
“Really?” Her hands fell away from the strings and she turned her head to look up at me. When she faced the harp again, I started working the muscles in her neck. I saw her lashes flutter and the reaction made my dick stiffen.
“Really. Can you play Anniversary?” I asked.
“On a Tony, Toni, Tone kick?” She quizzed.
“Maybe. Or maybe I want to throw different songs at you to see you switch it up and not pour too much focus into something that’s supposed to be fun.”
She switched effortlessly to Anniversary and the music did nothing to dissuade the heat mounting in the space between our bodies. If anything, the soft sound made me want to kiss her neck more than before.
“Because you know how to have fun, Senator?” Even in that charged moment, Xari couldn’t help her smart mouth.
“I do. I might not do it often but I know how to.”
“Oh? And what would be considered fun for you right now?” The way she played in perfect pitch while holding a conversation with my fingers massaging her neck amazed me. This was a different side of Xari. This side of her wasn’t immature. It was disciplined and poised. It was pulled together and sexy as hell.
“You really want to know?” I asked, my voice turning low and hungry.
“I wouldn’t have asked if I didn’t want to know, Freeman.”
“Oh, are we doing that again?” I chuckled.
“You’re misbehaving,” she countered. The smooth curve of her cheek lifted and her dimples popped out to say hi.
Those dimples made my dick so fucking hard. I was glad I wasn’t pressed up against her back or else she would have felt how hard they made me.
“How so?” I quizzed.
“The way your hands are moving on my neck,” she said softly.
“Then you really don’t want to hear what my idea of fun is right now.”
The music stopped abruptly but she didn’t turn around to face me. With my fingers on her neck, I could tell when her pulse quickened. It was practically vibrating beneath her skin.
“I do.” Even though I knew she was full of adrenaline, she didn’t let on. Her voice was calm and her body was still.
I didn’t tell her with words. Instead, I dipped my head low until my lips swept over her warm, honey velvet skin. When I brushed against her with my mouth, her breathing stuttered but she didn’t pull away. I pounced on the lack of hesitation as consent.
I pressed a kiss to the side of her neck, testing the waters. She let out a soft gasp. It was quiet but it plucked open the flimsy hinge keeping the demon inside of me at bay. That gasp let me know what she wanted.
I slid my tongue along the curve of her neck before gripping her soft, cotton candy hair and tugging it to one side. I pressed my teeth into the tendons beneath the slender column of her throat. A growl rumbled somewhere in my chest. A direct response to the moan spilling over Xari’s full lips.
Benita Applebum. You gotta put me on.
Benita. Benita. Benita.
“Wait,” she said, still drunk from her own moan and my mouth on her neck. She stood and turned to face me. “This can’t be right.” Confusion flickered in her espresso eyes as her brows furled together.
I had a raging hard cock so I didn’t get the confusion. “What can’t be right? You have to know how fucking sexy I think you are.”
“Of course I do,” she said in true Xari fashion. “I mean…the way you kissed and bit my fucking neck, Evander.”
“What about it?” I grabbed her hips and pulled her against me. Right then, I didn’t give a fuck about her feeling my dick. I wanted her to feel it. I wanted her to know what she did to me. Resisting was exhausting.
“I just didn’t think you had that kind of passion. It’s probably a fluke.”
“Fluke? Xari, stop fucking playing with me.” I pulled on her curls, making her head snap back. She bit her bottom lip while her eyes locked onto mine.
“Kiss me, Evander,” she demanded. Her bossy controlling ass drove me crazy in the best and worst ways.
I tightened my hold