Page 45 of A Diamond Deal
It wanted her mouth.
A gift she had offered once before. To take him between her lips. To kiss him. But it had felt too much like surrender. It made him feel…vulnerable.Inherpower. Her control. And he had not wantedthat.To lose himself between her lips. For her to control…him.So he had not encouraged it. He’d stopped it.
He did not needthatkiss from her.
Slowly, she folded down her skirt. Placed her own hands in her lap and knotted her fingers.
She didn’t look at him.
She looked only to the stage. To the singers now too loud in his ears. Their song was a screech. It made his temples throb.
He turned his head to the stage—to see what held her gaze. It was an explosion of colour now.
His head snapped back to her.
She was in complete control of herself.
He wanted her listless in his arms.Overwhelmed.
But she wasn’t.
‘We are leaving.’
‘Why?’ she asked quietly. And only then did she turn to him. Her eyes…they blazed. Her hand moved. Her fingers stroked the inside of his thigh. And they rose higher. ‘Don’t you want to test how quiet you can be, Konstantinos?’
His blood roared.
She smiled.
His heart stuttered.
‘I will not deviate from the rules,’ she promised.
Just ashehad.
His eyes blew wide.
She was outmanoeuvring him? Playing him at his own game?
He—
‘I can help ease the tension from your too tight shoulders, Konstantinos.’ Her hand moved to the centre of his thighs. ‘You need to be touched,’ softly, she teased him. Her fingertips crept up along the seam of his zip. ‘Byme.’
The reversal of his seduction. It turned him on.Outraged him. In equal parts.
Once he’d enjoyed her ability to say his words back to him after she’d taken minutes in a meeting, echoing his choices for his employees, or his business. She’d made him hear his words—his choices—differently. Hear what was missing.
He’d found it attractive.Once.
He didn’t find the echo of his words attractive now.
His words on her lips sounded…cold.
He caught her wrist. ‘I do not need anything.’
Or anyone, he added silently.
He released her wrist as if it were a burning ember.
