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“Why?” I cocked my head. Challenging him.
“Not everything is your concern.”
Osian was getting uncomfortable. He shifted his weight, pushing his hand into his pocket. There was a little bit of confusion in the power dynamic. I could feel it.
Osian would be my husband someday and, according to organization rules, he would be my male guardian. But right now, in this moment, I was Merrick’s ward.
And, on top of that, Merrick was Brenin.
He held the ultimate trump card.
I could tell that bothered Osian. His jaw tensed and he looked away.
Oddly enough, I found I was enjoying this a little bit. Watching them measure their metaphorical dicks against each other. Even though I knew Merrick was going to win out in the end. He always did.
“Is this about me?” I pressed.
“It’s not women’s business,” said Osian shortly.
“If it concerns me, it’s my business.”
Merrick’s jaw twitched and he crossed to me, cradling my elbow. I didn’t want to look like a child being dragged from the room so I went with him as he ushered me down the hall. We paused outside my bedroom door and I sent him a heavy glare.
“Do we have a problem, cariad?” he said quietly.
I crossed my arms. He was a lot taller than me…how had I never noticed that he practically towered over me? His body was far broader than I remembered. In fact, it seemed to fill out a doorway despite his graceful build.
I was caged between his chest and my closed door. His gaze bored into me, waiting for me to answer.
I’d never noticed up until now, but he had such an intense stare. Made all the more stark by his thick, black lashes.
His lips parted.
My teeth began working that spot in my mouth again. I was fighting not to have another of those odd, intrusive thoughts about him, but it was almost impossible when he was so close I could feel his body heat.
It occurred to me as I looked up into his familiar face that there was a side to Merrick that was completely unknown to me. A side to him that he concealed behind closed bedroom doors.
I’d watched a little bit of porn before out of curiosity and I’d read a few smutty romances. I wasn’t born yesterday, I knew what people did in bed with each other.
Out of the blue, it was hitting me that Merrick did all those things. He fucked, he talked dirty, he moaned, he got vulnerable and naked.
And yet…it was unimaginable.
“Clara?”
The word shot through me like cold water and I jerked my face up to his, my cheeks heating.
“What the hell is going on with you?”
I turned on my heel and shut myself in my room. Merrick didn’t pursue me, he just went back down the hall. I heard their voices rising and falling and then Osian knocked gently on my door.
We watched a movie together in an almost empty theater. Then I let him kiss me in the car behind the building.
My body stayed quiet, hyper aware of how he responded. He tasted a bit like mouthwash, it was on the back of his tongue when he pushed it past my teeth. Gagging me a little.
He didn’t seem to mind that I was slow to relax. It was more about him and what he was doing to me than anything else.
There was a kind of confusing violence to his arousal.
