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“If they were?” I ask, my voice a rumbling breath. Her lips are so full, so pouty, so close. “What would you do to convince them weareen?—”

Her lips crush mine, her hands fist in my hair, and her tongue demands mine.

And fucking hell, I give it to her.

Chapter Nine

Del

He’s a freaking animal-saving, real-life hero, nerdy geek who looks like a sex god and makes me laugh. I’m defenseless against that.

Against him.

And holy shit, can the man kiss! His lips move over mine, almost savagely. His tongue is a raw weapon of carnal possession.

I whimper, melting into his chest, his mouth. Craving more.

He growls in reply, nipping my bottom lip before charting a path of hot, nibbling kisses down over my jaw, the side of my neck, up to my ear. His long fingers cup my throat as he captures my earlobe with his teeth.

A hitching cry of pleasure and consent falls from me, my sex heavy with wet need.

“Oh, God…” I rasp, eyes closed, rolling my head to grant his masterful mouth more access to my throat. “Lachlan…”

He moves his lips to the curve where my neck becomes my shoulder, scraping his teeth against my skin. He grabs my arsewith those big, hard hands of his before dragging one up to the swell of my breast straining against the rigid prison of my corset. His fingers dig into the soft flesh spilling over the top, and I arch into his touch.

“Christ, Del,” he groans, mouth at my ear, hand on my boob, my butt. “You drive me fucking wild. You’re a vixen, a goddess. I want to spread you out on my bed and make you?—”

Something solid thuds against my shoulder, almost knocking me sideways off my chair. Out of Lachlan’s carnal hold.

“What the—” he snarls as I grab at the seat and swing my stare up at the intrusion.

“Shit.” A tall woman dressed as Galadriel fromThe Lord of the Ringsif Galadriel was on OnlyFans giggles, the cocktail glass in her hand listing toward the ground. One of Stevie’s university friends, I think. “Sorry.”

She slides a blurry look back and forth between Lachlan and me, and then she drops a dramatic wink at me. “Well done, Delly.” Delly? No one calls me that. She giggles again. “Don’t betoobusy you miss the wedding rehearsal tomorrow though,” she continues, waving her glass at me. Purply-blue liquid sloshes out, splashing her feet. “Stevie’s counting on you.”

Guilt hits me like an icy slap. I shrink back in my seat, away from Lachlan, even as our stares clash. That’s the second time this mountain of a man has made me forget why I’m up here. What am Idoing? I’m here for my cousin, not to…

Make out? Get laid? Fall in love?

Jolting to my feet, I step away from OnlyFans GaladrielandLachlan. “I gotta go,” I say.

Lachlan straightens from his chair, a potent force rising. His stare traps me. Refuses to release me. “Go?”

“Me too.” Galadriel giggles and pivots in a lurching semi-circle before stumbling off in the direction of the homestead. “Byeee.”

I swallow, looking at Lachlan. “My cousin…”Will understand if you spend the night riding Lachlan McKenzie like a cowgirl.

His jaw knots. “Can I see you tomorrow?” He rubs at his mouth. “For the contract exchange?”

My heart squeezes. Of course, it’s all about him buying Cloudkiss. Not us. The kiss that shook me to my very core? That tilted my world? Just performative subterfuge to him.

A strangled sigh bursts from me. “Y’know what? You can?—”

At my hip, in the small black latex purse I made to go with my outfit, my phone vibrates.

Without a word, I pull it out, giving Lachlan my back. This will be Stevie, no doubt. Wondering where I?—

My throat slams shut at the text on the screen.