Page 35 of Sinful Empire (Mount Trilogy 3)
As her muscles clamp down, I finally let her push me over the edge.
When I pull my cock free from her body, I turn her around, letting the skirt of her dress fall as I fix my pants and lift my gaze to her flushed face. Her mask is askew, but that no longer matters. I reach behind her head and untie the silk ribbon to let the mask fall to the floor. I didn’t wear a mask tonight, and hers was only symbolic.
I straighten the tiara on her head, and even with her mussed hair, courtesy of me, she’s absolutely regal.
“Thank you,” she says.
“For what?”
“For always giving me exactly what I need, even when I don’t realize I need it.”
I take her hand, threading her smaller fingers through mine, and lift it to my lips to press a kiss to the back of it. “We’re not done yet. Not even close.”
I pull her closer, taking her lips, something I’ll never get tired of doing. I’ve never kissed another woman before her, and she’s the only one I ever will.
No other man will ever kiss her. Touch her. Taste her. Feel her as she comes.
She’s mine. And after tonight, she won’t have any doubt.
When I release her and her eyes flutter open again, I lead her toward the curtain. There, I pause and ask her the most important question of my life.
Keira
“Do you trust me?” Lachlan’s gaze takes on a new intensity as he asks me.
How can he question it anymore?
“Of course.”
He presses a kiss to my fingers before he draws them away. “I come from the darkness. I’ll never be able to live with you out in the open. Being with me will never be normal, never be what you planned for your future. Ever.”
“I don’t care. I don’t want normal. I just want you.”
“I don’t know why you have faith in me.”
I reach out and grip the lapel of his jacket. He doesn’t get it, but someday he will. “You don’t hide who you are.”
“I’m the devil in a suit.”
I shake my head. He’s so wrong. “That’s what you think, but I can look beyond the surface to what you’re hiding beneath. There’s a beauty in you that you’ll never see until you look through my eyes.”
“Don’t try to make me into some kind of white knight, Keira. I’m not even close.”
“No. You’re not. But you’re also not the devil. You’re more like Michael the archangel. He defeated Satan. You’ve defended those who didn’t have the ability to save themselves. You swept in and took vengeance. You keep the balance. You can think you’re evil all you want, but I think you’ve driven out more evil than you’ve ever caused.”
His dark gaze widens for a moment before he tames the surprise in it and sweeps open the curtain.
Lachlan leads me through the hidden hallways, his hand never leaving mine, until we stop in front of a fancy-looking security device that matches the one V showed me on the door to the suite. He presses his fingers against it, and the panel slides open to reveal the closet of our suite.
“Someday, I’m going to learn these hallways.”
He smiles down at me, his face gentle. “Someday, you’ll learn it all, hellion.”
The door closes behind us, and he turns to face me.
“I told you I’d protect you, and I will. With my life and everything I have. This is the best way I know how. I have one more box for you tonight, Keira.” His hand tightens on mine as he leads me through the bathroom and into the bedroom.
My heart rate picks up as his hand closes over the knob, and I repeat his words in my head.
