Chapter Four: A Heated Dalliance.

After giving Mavros my answer, we drove the rest of the way to his high-rise apartment in silence.

The last half hour felt like a hot fever dream; I could barely remember anything beyond leaving the courtroom, being shot at, my car exploding, and Mavros…proposing to me.

I could barely wrap my head around that last part, so I elected to just ignore it. To pretend that the ring shining on my finger did not exist.

“Would you like something to drink?” Mavros asked as he led me into his suite. The sun gleamed down from the ceiling, which was covered only by glass.

“No,” I shook my head. Mavros stared at me with those intense eyes, and I saw something that looked like concern lurking within them.

“Well,” I swallowed, relenting. “Maybe a glass of vodka would do me some good.”

Mavros nodded, then directed me to the living room.

“Wait here,” he commanded, then left.

As I sat down, everything that had happened in the past few hours suddenly came crashing down all at once.

I held my hands and pressed my knees together, but that didn’t stop the heavy shivering that coursed through my body.

I…I’d almost died. I’d almost died, and even if Mavros had claimed that it wasn’t Eden that had caused it, that had called the hit on me; I couldn’t imagine anyone else having any reason to do it at all.

The thought of it scared me to my bones.

Mavros returned to find me curled up in his couch.

“Take this,” he placed a glass half-filled with amber liquid on the table in front of me. “It’ll calm you down.”

As I complied, he took a seat on the sofa I was curled up in and watched me as I drank.

In spite of the fear I still felt at that moment, my body slowly came alive under his scrutiny. There was a heat, a heavy intensity in his gaze that made him…irresistible.

As I returned the cup to the table, my eyes strayed to the ring on my finger, and a bad idea took root in my mind.

I was…I was engaged to Mavros Blackwood. That meant that we could do things that people who were engaged do with each other…right?

“Are you alright?” Mavros asked, frowning at me. It was then that I realized that my cheeks were flushed with heat.

Blushing deeper in embarrassment, I took another swig of the vodka, and mustered my courage.

“Mavros…”

“What?”

“Please, fuck me. Make me forget everything.”

I didn’t give him a chance to reply. I leapt towards him and grabbed his collars, pulling him down to my lips.

His lips were an electric shock and a warm blanket all in one. The feel of his trimmed beard scratching my face sent fire coursing through my bones, settling deep in my core.

Steel corded hands wrapped around my waist and pulled me to his rock hard chest, squashing my breasts against them. Mavros opened his mouth, and his hot tongue plunged into my mouth.

“Mhmmm,” I moaned, threading my fingers into his dark hair and pulling him deeper into the kiss. His skin was warm but rough beneath my hands, and my waist ached with the force he was using to press my body to him.

He drew back and broke the kiss, looking down at me with dark eyes filled with desire.

“Laura,” he whispered. “You’re vulnerable right now. Are you sure?”

“I’m sure,” I answered immediately, with more force than even I was expecting. I’d never been surer of anything in my life. “I want you in me. Now.”

It was like a switch was flipped at those words. One moment, Mavros was hesitating. The next, his arms were suddenly pressing me against the couch, his hands holding my shoulders with a possessive roughness that made heat pool in my stomach.

Before I knew it, my back was pressed against the chair, and Mavros loomed over me. I ran my fingers over his chest, tugging at his clothes with petulant impatience.

“I want to see you.”

Mavros didn’t reply. He leaned in for another kiss, and the more our tongues wrestled, the more I could feel my thoughts evaporating into nothingness.

Mavros hands wandered down to my chest, grabbing my tits and squeezing them with a force that made me gasp. A couple fingers tweaked at an erect nipple, sending pain and pleasure rippling across my chest in equal measure.

His other hand, however, roamed down the curves of my body, to my waist, and even lower. When his hands slipped under the hem of my skirt and cupped my leaking pussy through my stained panties, I arched my back, trying to feel the weight of his touch.

With frantic movements, he slipped a finger over the panties and pulled them down, breaking the kiss at the same time. I watched with lidded eyes as my black underwear slipped from my spread-eagled legs and hooked on his finger.

He wasn’t looking at it; instead, his gaze was focused on my pink, throbbing core. He looked up, and our gazes locked.

“You are so beautiful.”

“You mean my pussy’s beautiful.”

He grinned, and the predatory brightness of the expression sent heat coursing through me.

“Same difference, Laura.”

He flung the panties away and unbuckled his trousers with quick, efficient movements. He pulled down his pants, followed immediately by dark satin boxers, setting free his cock.

“Oh,” I gasped.

It was…larger than I was used to. At least eight inches, maybe nine or ten, I wasn’t sure. But it was at least two inches thick, with throbbing veins that gave it the appearance of a bludgeoning weapon.

Translucent precum leaked from the tip.

“It looks happy to see me,” I said with a smile, looking up at Mavros’s darkened, hooded gaze.

Mavros reached down and ran a finger along my wet folds, eliciting a shiver and a yelp from me.

“Your pussy looks happy to see me, too.”

The words caused laughter to bubble up from my throat, only for it to cut off with a gasp when I felt him entering me.

“Laura,” he whispered hoarsely as he sheathed himself in my pussy, his cock easing slowly through my folds.

I feel his fingers again, this time circling my clitoris. I shiver, and arch my hips towards him, taking more of him into me.

“Mav…” I gasp. “F-Faster.”

“What did you say?” he asked, his voice annoyingly smug.

I smacked his chest.

“Fuck me faster, bastard.”

With a laugh, he grabbed my waist with his rough hands and pulled me towards him, plunging fully into my pussy.

“Your wish is my command.”