Page 93 of Knight’s Dominion

When his chuckles died down, his gaze went back to her lips, like he was thinking, wanting, the same thing.

Grace cleared her throat. “But I might be late tonight. I'm going to visit Laney and check on the others." Her heart pounded behind her ribs at the lie. It unsettled her to lie to him, when he'd been nothing but good to her.

His fingers glided down her arm, then wrapped around her fingers, and he tugged her closer. “Be careful, yeah? You’re still healing. Those wounds could open back up.”

He pulled the key card to his room from his pocket and handed it to her. "Now kiss me before I go.”

Jesus, he was chipping away at her defenses bit by bit. After everything that had happened—Vince getting beaten up, Mark’s and Tina's deaths, Hannah still missing, then the call from Oden—she didn't think she could survive that kind of intimacy from him.

"I don't think that's such a good idea," she said playfully and glanced down at the obvious bulge behind his zipper.

Ignoring her protests, he lifted her and planted her on his lap so she was straddling him. “Not in the mood to be teased, Grace. Give me your mouth."

"Chaos..." His big hand gripped the side of her throat, fingers delving into her hair, and he moved in, taking her lips in a hard kiss. He licked her lower lip and she opened for him without any more thoughts of resistance, hungry for a taste of him. His tongue surged into her mouth, mating with hers. Heat spiraled through her belly and pulsed between her thighs.

A growl rumbled from his chest and he gripped her ass, hauling her closer. Fisting her hair tighter, he held her in place and dominated her mouth. And God, she loved it. His cock was hard between her thighs and she squirmed as his other hand squeezed her ass.

She rolled her hips and he lifted his head, breaking the kiss.

“Don't stop." There was no missing the pleading note to her voice.

He chuckled, raspy and low, dirty as hell. “When I get back tonight, I'm gonna be so fucking hard for you.”

He licked his lips like he was imagining all the things he was going to do to her, and she pressed against him to ease the ache, inwardly growling at her own lack of willpower.

“Angel, I can smell how wet that pussy is for me. Fuck...do you have any idea how much I want you right now, how hard I'm going to take you when I finally get to sink inside you?"

“I’m good with now,” she said.

He chuckled. “Zen and Kryos are waiting for me.”

She slid her hand under his shirt, across his abs, and he shivered. She loved that she had that effect on him. "You don't play fair, you realize that, right?"

His fingers in her hair tugged lightly, tilting her head back, while the other grabbed her wandering hand, stilling it. “As soon as I’m done tonight, I'm coming for you. Be ready, because there won’t be any warmup, nothing except me stripping you down and fucking you until you scream, do you understand?"

She licked her own suddenly dry lips.

"Do you understand, Grace?"

“Yes?” she whispered.

He gently set her aside, gave her one last, hard kiss, then walked out the door.

Butterflies went nuts in her belly.

No wonder he was acting all protective; she was behaving like some pathetic damsel, all gooey-eyed and pitiful.

Forcing herself to pull her shit together, she stood and tugged on her boots. She may not want to tell Chaos about tonight, but she needed backup. Someone who could get her out of there fast if things got ugly.

She just had to go find him.

CHAPTER 26

Every muscle in her body was tight and on edge.

She was braced to fight, to defend herself.

Oden would arrive at any moment, and she wouldn’t be dropping her guard while she was with him. Not a chance. Chaos would be pissed when he found out what she’d done, but she couldn’t let this chance slip through her fingers.