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My eyes roam her body, drinking up her pert nipples and moving to her neatly shaved pussy. Although covered now by my shirt, I still remember the sweet and tangy taste in my mouth. So deliciously addictive, it has my mouth watering for another taste.
Mine!
“I’m done,” she whispers, lifting her chocolate brown eyes to meet mine, and I am sucked into their depths. We stand in silence for a long tense moment before she breaks it. “What do you think happened to the power?”
“It’s probably a power outage or the fuse box blew. Stay here while I go check—”
“What? No!” she yells, grabbing onto my arm, her nails digging into me and no doubt breaking skin. “You can’t leave me alone. You promised you wouldn’t leave me alone!”
“And I won’t. At least not for more than a few minutes,” I whisper, my voice much softer than I’ve ever heard it. “I’ll light candles for you then—”
“No!” she shakes her head, hair flying everywhere, even hitting my mouth. “If you are going out, then I will go with you. I don’t care if this is your house, I am not staying in here in the dark, alone.”
It’s not my house. Not yet at least.
Joy and I just shared our first moments in this mansion. I don’t need to see any more of it to know that I’ll do whatever it takes to make it mine. Once I buy it, I’m turning it into a private residence and gifting it to her. This will be our place, but I don’t tell her that yet. The last thing I want is to scare her away.
“Sweetheart, it’s cold. That shirt will not keep you warm outside, but—”
“Then I will grab a towel or blanket and use it to cover myself, but I am not staying alone.”
I smile fondly at her. “You have the answers to everything, huh?”
“I would rather get frostbite than stay in the dark alone. I’m going with you.”
I breathe out a sigh, figuring there is no way around this. I can’t go out with Joy half-dressed. Hell, I don’t have any idea where the fuse box is even located, and I am not risking her health while I look around. With how heavily it’s snowing, I doubt we’ll even be able to make it out of this place before morning.
I breathe out a sigh, turning to the girl whose head barely reaches my shoulder and question what the hell Eric got me into. He must’ve intended for me to get away from the office and have a Christmas fling, but there is no way he anticipated Joy becoming more than that. Or perhaps that’s why he chose her for me.
My perfect Christmas gift.
“Fine, we’ll search for candles together instead.”
“Can we start a fire too?” she says excitedly, her bright eyes watching me hopefully. “I’ve never been to a house with a fireplace before.”
“Sure, it’s going to get cold in here soon with the heat out. Let’s go see if there is firewood in the hearth downstairs and find some food. You must be famished.”
“God, yes. I haven’t had anything since breakfast. Kim said I couldn’t eat anything, so that my dress would fit. I guess she was right after all. The dress probably would have split if I’d grabbed even a cookie,” she says wistfully.
Anger and jealousy unlike anything I have ever felt in my life consume me, rocking me to the core. “Who is Kim?”And why the fuck do they have a say in what you do?
“My roommate,” my little angel says cheerfully, oblivious to the dark clouds gathering in my mind. “She is actually the one who sign—”
“What?” I ask when she suddenly stops. Her eyes turn slightly panicked when they lock on mine. “What did she do, angel?”
“Nothing,” she hurries to say. “I’m starved. Let’s go find something to eat and start that fire you promised me.”
I don’t get a chance to question her further as she grabs my hand and leads us out of the room. It’s clear she has no clue where we are going, and the darkness certainly doesn’t help.
I use my phone’s flashlight to get us downstairs and to the kitchen where I rummage around for candles, the job made harder by the woman glued to my side, clinging to my arm. I don’t dare ask her to let go; her touch has warmth swirling low in my stomach.
I could get used to this. Having someone depend on me, someone need me in ways that go beyond monetary gain.
I had no fucking idea just how much I wanted or needed something like this until now, and the thought of going back to my cold penthouse leaves a sour taste in my mouth. Now that I know what it’s like to have her, I don’t want it to end.
“Did you find them?” she whispers from beside me, her lips parting in a yawn.
“Not yet.” But I did find food. For all his faults, I am glad Eric thought ahead and had his assistant stock the house. It occurs to me that he must have been planning this for a while.
