Total pages in book: 56
Estimated words: 52864 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 264(@200wpm)___ 211(@250wpm)___ 176(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 52864 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 264(@200wpm)___ 211(@250wpm)___ 176(@300wpm)
I confessed everything to Draco about my visit with Mia, and then I watched him get up and close his bedroom door. No anger. No words. I was just shut out.
I understood how on top of the events today he might feel I was piling on his misery, but he had to see I’d never taken serious action to make him hate me. Even if I had, would it really have been such a terrible thing? I’d do anything to help him win. Anything.
I went to his door and knocked softly. “Draco? Can I come in? I have a glass of water for you.” He needed it, I imagined.
He didn’t reply, so I opened the door. At the same time, Draco stepped out of the bathroom, patting a towel to his face.
He was naked, wet, and looking just as beautiful as the first time I saw his body, with tight ropes of muscles on his arms, which flexed and bulged as he moved the towel over his face and chest.
His wide shoulders tapered down into a waist that had been painstakingly shaped to perfection, forming the top of a deep V that traveled down to his groin.
Oh God, that V. It perfectly framed the magnificent cock hanging low between his strong thighs like a work of art. He was a gorgeous creature, sexually flawless as he was dangerous.
He dropped his hands, and his icy, pale eyes zeroed in on me. “I thought I told you not to barge in.”
I closed my eyes. “I knocked first. Can we talk?”
“I am not in the mood. And open your eyes.”
I did it, but Draco had dropped the towel altogether, standing boldly on display.
I clenched my eyes shut again. “Draco, you’re drunk.”
“Maybe, but we might not have another opportunity. Things will come to a head soon, and your guess is as good as mine which way it’ll go. It is now or never, Piper.”
He wanted to have sex?
“I believe fucking is a more appropriate term,” he said, “but use whichever word you like—screwing, fornication, sexual intercourse—makes no difference to me as long as I get to slide my hard dick inside you. Now, open your eyes.”
My stomach flipped. My arms broke out in goosebumps. Yes, I desired him, but it was in a way that felt dirty and wrong, like wanting something I shouldn’t.
“Perhaps the real issue is you’re afraid to take what you want.” He tsked. “Your selflessness will be your downfall someday, Piper. That is unless the world ends, and then you’ll be kicking your own ass for not giving in to your desire while you had the chance.” He paused. “I know you want me.”
“You’re dangerous.” He could see right through me, so he knew I wasn’t talking about his powers. My feelings for him were getting perilously close to crossing the line from lust to something more. If I lost control, then what?
“Do you really have so little faith in yourself?” He sighed with disapproval. “It’s a shame you do not see how strong you are. You’re cautious with an inquisitive mind. You never write off anyone until they’ve proven to be disloyal. And you never deviate from what you truly believe. So if you truly think you are too weak to handle me, then there’s the door. Otherwise, open your eyes, Piper, and take off your clothes so I can fuck you.”
I did not consider myself weak. I feared wanting something I shouldn’t, and for good reason.
I hesitated to open my eyes, feeling my core heat up in pulsing waves. I couldn’t lie. I wanted to know what it would feel like to have him inside me. Draco was more beautiful than a god, yet more sincere and human than any man I’d ever met.
He’d been kept away from everyone in a fake world, where he was denied a genuine existence, yet he came out of it feeling solely responsible to save the world. What happened to me and everyone else mattered to him.
Sadly, I couldn’t say the same for those who’d actually been given this responsibility. All around us, those in power weren’t just failing us, they were the architects of our demise.
“You mistake my ego for compassion,” he said. “I have a problem with anyone telling me who I’m meant to be and/or attempting to control me. That is the reason I am fighting.”
A lie. I knew because I’d been watching him carefully. “See. Your humility is proof you’re not evil. You’re good, like me.”
A long, silent moment passed. My heart wasn’t letting up and neither was my urge to give in to my sexual urges. The hollow, damp ache between my thighs said it all.
“Then open your damned eyes, Piper, and take off your fucking clothes.”
I debated for one more second and then looked at his naked body. My heart rate exploded the moment my eyes settled on his full arousal. He was so damned hard, every thick inch of him waiting for me.