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We’re in my kingdom now.
I can do whatever the fuck I want.
Laila’s eyes follow me every step of the way. Her throat bobs. Her hands flutter together and apart, like a bird, twittering around, unsure where to land or where it is safe to fly.
She sees me watching and clamps her fingers together. “I fidget when I’m nervous.”
“What’s left to be nervous about?”
She flings her arms around to gesture at the general situation. “You. Me. The contract. All of it.”
“Are you having second thoughts?”
The contract allows me to keep her in this room and do every single thing I can’t stop thinking about. But if she didn’t want it… I could let her leave.
Well, I couldtryto let her leave.
The devil only knows if I’m man enough to watch her walk away.
“I’m… No, I’m fine.” She takes a deep breath and straightens her posture. “I know why I’m doing this.”
I watch her for a moment. Her body stills. She stills.
Only then do I open the top drawer of my bedside table and pull out a roll of condoms.
“Then we can get rid of these.”
Laila blinks, and blinks, and blinks some more. Suddenly, she’s not so defiant and certain. She chews at the inside of her lip again. I wonder if she notices that I can see that.
“Well, we wouldn’t wanna—I mean, that seems… wasteful, you know? Like, you paid good money for those. You might want them again. Later. With someone else.”
I turn to start a fire in the fireplace—and also to keep her from seeing the twist of disgust rippling across my face. So I don’t have to explain just how foul I suddenly find the idea of touching anyone else.
She’s just a woman.
An innocent woman who wandered into the wrong office at the wrong time.
But now that I’ve tasted her, there’s an animal lurking somewhere deep in my chest that gets violent at the thought of her laying a hand on another living soul.
I feel Laila’s eyes on me as I kindle the flames. Heat rises in waves until it’s crackling. When it’s hot enough, I turn back and her skin is ethereal in the firelight.
“There’ll be no going back after this,roza. Are you prepared?”
Another pause. Breath withheld. The fire bakes my back, but the heat has nothing on the inferno raging in my chest.
Laila fidgets again, nervous flickers in the firelight.
Then she takes me by surprise.
She charges forward, rips the condoms out of my hand, and nudges me aside so she can take my place in front of the roaring fire.
She tears off the first packet, looks me dead in the eyes, and chucks it into the heart of the flames.
She does it again with the second. And the third. The flames dance in her purple-blue eyes. On the last one, she hesitates. Then she steels herself. “There’s no going back.”
She doesn’t wait for me to respond before she tosses it in.
Her hands finally empty, she pirouettes slowly until she’s facing me. “Now what?” she whispers.
