Chapter 0294

“Ariel,” Luca sighs, shaking his head and smiling as he turns back to me, buttoning his pants. “It’s not going to happen like this.”

“What’s not going to happen!?” I ask, tossing out a hand.

“It’s…” Luca says, his emphasis on the word, and his raised eyebrow making it very clear what he means, “not going to happen like this.”

I jump to my feet in protest, my hands fisted at my side. “Luca!” I hiss, angry. “I mean, you don’t get to decide that for both of us! There are two of us here!”

He sighs a little through his nose, frustrated, and then lightning–fast he reaches for me, grabbing me by the waist and pulling me tight against

num, running his fingers through my

around the back of my neck before I have time to even think, to process

room, Ariel?” he murmurs, smirking down at me, shaking his head and staring into my eyes with his pretty brown ones. “With my uncle, and your bodyguard, and a passel of teenage boys on the other side of that wall?” He

because I didn’t think about it that way. But even as I know that’s not what I want, my hands move to his waist. And then I watch Luca shudder, and press his eyes shut as I flatten my

ghght against him.

as he was pretending to be just a

I whisper, soft and teasing. “Just…kiss me. Just a

when my shoulders clang against the metal, but it’s not that it hurts – not at all, Luca’s very careful with me – but the sound of

at my

that he cradles my head, using

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