Page 180 of The Heart You Kept

“I…my apologies.” He gives a subtle shrug. “I have a lot on my mind lately.”

Hmm…. About what?

It’s obvious he isn’t going to elaborate, so I try to change the subject. I sip my wine again as I look around. “Do you know how many times I’ve watched the video of you jerking off in my store?”

His eyes darken as he sips his wine again. “Do you know how many times I’ve jerked off thinking about you in your store?”

“How many?”

“Too many.”

“Why would you jerk off thinking about me when you can have the real thing?”

He opens his mouth to say something but no words come out.

“I like you,” I whisper.

“I like you,” he replies without hesitation.

“But you make me feel needy,” I murmur. “I’m not used to this feeling, and if I’m being honest, I’m not sure that I like it.”

Satisfaction flashes across his face before he quickly covers it. “You just like my cock.”

“Probably.” I smile as we stare at each other and like smoke in the wind I feel the tension leave his body.

Whatever I just said made him feel better. You make me feel needy, is it possible that he’s feeling needy too?

“So now that you have me here, what are you going to do with me?”

“Hmm.” He rubs the backs of his fingers through his stubble as his eyes drop down my body and back up to my face. “I’m going to get you naked. Tie you up and put my cock so far down your throat that you choke.”

I snort my wine up my nose. “What?” I splutter before launching into a full-blown coughing attack.

“Just like that.” He smiles as he rubs my back.

I cough and cough and cough and he gets me a glass of water and passes it to me. “Drink this, wimp.”

I take a sip of the water. “You did say you wanted me to choke.”

“On my dick, not air.”

I bite my bottom lip to hide my smile. “Is that why you were nervous in the car, you were frightened that you were going to choke me to death.”

“Not nervous.” He smiles. “Excited.”

“About?”

“Finally getting you alone.” He tucks a piece of hair behind my ear and cups my face in his hands. “You’re all I’ve thought about all week.”

The air swirls between us, a magical aura that only he can activate.

He’s just so….

“Same,” I whisper.

His lips take mine as he kisses me softly, his eyes flutter closed and I know he’s as lost in the moment as I am. We kiss again, more urgent, and him confirming that he and Hermione are well and truly over has taken down my guardrail.

I am irrevocably his…. Even if only for tonight.