Beneath Her Bastard Boss

Chapter 169

“We should stop,” she said, but her tone was convincing.

“Please don’t,” Alexei murmured against her lips, his hand cupping the back of her neck as he pulled back slightly. “I don’t want to stop.

“Alexei,” she breathed.

She didn’t pull away again. She didn’t ask if this was a good idea or a mistake. He kissed her and she didn’t hesitate in kissing him back. Instead something inside her melted, like it finally clicked in place.

She groaned when he was the one to break their kiss.

Alexei lifted his hand, tracing the line of her jaw, the pads of his fingers along her jawline his touch warm against her skin. Keira met his gaze.

He was a man of contradictions, one who provoked and frustrated her, but also one who had stood between her and danger. If they ever got out of here, did she dare tell him he had stolen a piece of her heart? Was she ready for that? For him? This is all they might have.

Alexei’s thumb traced her bottom lip with tenderness. “I need you to be sure about this, Keira. Because once we cross this line…

“I know.” Her voice caught. “But I do… I want you. I need you.” She hadn’t meant for it to come out so needy

The admission hung between them, it hadn’t just been needy but raw and honest.

She could see his eyes darken, pupils dilating in the dim light filtering from the bathroom. She watched him struggle with restraint, his jaw clenched tight.

“Maybe here isn’t the right choice,” he said finally. “Not in this place.”

body pressing against his on the narrow cot. “This might be all we have.” Keira was surprised

was uncertain. Rescue was a hope, not a guarantee. They could die at any

immediately, her hands fisting in his shirt as she pulled him closer. The kiss was nothing like the tentative

zipper of her dress just above her bottom. The sound of it sliding down seemed very loud in the silence. Cool air hit her bare skin, making her

throat,

of the chest she’d glimpsed earlier, muscles defined from years of training. He was no soft royal. Her palms flattened against

she asked

her, as he shifted above her. “Now I have you where

shoulders, teaving her bare from the waist up. Alexei’s eyes wandered across her naked skin with an adoration that stole the air from her lungs. No man had ever looked at her like that, like she was something precious and perfect. Not like she had slept with

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the path his eyes had taken, pressing kisses to her collarbone, the swell of her breasts. When his lips cloud drowne nipple,

fingers tangling in

been particularly sensitive there, but under his skill, every touch

broad expanse of his shoulders, memorizing the feel of warm skin over hard muscle. When her fingers found

his voice rough with want. “Let me take

her body, pressing kisses to her ribs, her stomach. His hands worked the dress down her hips, taking it with him as he moved lower. Soon she was naked beneath him,

she felt powerful. The way he looked at her, touched her, worshipped her with his mouth and hands, made her feel like a

and gentle touches that had her writhing

she whispered, not caring

looked up at her,

me

What.

you want.”