Bad Boy Romance Collection: The Volanis Brothers Trilogy by Meg Jackson

Author:Meg Jackson [Jackson, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-08-21T18:30:00+00:00

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Epilogue

The quiet click of a keyboard. The wispy scratch of pen on paper. Cristov let the noises settle in his mind, hypnotic and wholesome.

Then he made the mistake of looking down at the screen, perched on Ricky’s lap as she lay on the sofa, her hair fanning out, a halo covering his knees.

“Shit,” he breathed, catching her attention. She looked up after a moment, putting a period at the end of a sentence. Her eyes seemed very blue from that angle; maybe it was the light of the screen reflecting off her.

“Sup?” she asked, her hands stilled.

“Gotta go soon,” he sighed, and Ricky scrunched her mouth to one side, knowing that what he needed to do was plaguing him. She lifted herself off his lap, putting her laptop down on the coffee table as she did.

“I know you wish you didn’t have to,” she said, “but it’s gonna be for good for you. For him. When I was…I just mean, if it wasn’t for you and Kim…”

“He’s not on drugs,” Cristov said, and though his words seemed short, his tone was gentle. “He…there’s something else. It’s got to be.”

Ricky shrugged.

“Whatever it is, you’ll get through it,” she said, offering him a wan smile. Her eye caught the sketch he’d been working on while she typed up her report. This time, her smile was a cynical smirk.

“Think you embellished a little bit,” she said. The picture was her, as Cristov could see her, lying across the sofa with her head on his lap. He looked down; okay, maybe he’d gone a little overboard in the chest area, but the rest of it, he thought, was pretty good.

“What do you expect?” he teased, reaching out to pull on the collar of her shirt. “You got those perfect little tits hidden away, I had to use my imagination.”

“If that’s how you imagine…” she started to say, and from her tone Cristov knew she was about to go off on one of her trademark faux-lectures. Moving his hand from her shirt to her jaw, he squeezed her face gently, just enough to stop her talking. Her eyebrows rose. Something moved between them. Just like always, they slipped, easy and perfect, into entirely different roles.

“I don’t want any backtalk right now, woman,” he growled, feeling himself harden as her eyes grew lidded, a lusty look that turned them almost grey. “You want me to draw them right, give me a good look.”

He released her jaw and her eyes flashed, her teeth clearly biting back a smile.

“Who’s gonna make me?” she taunted, leaning away from him slightly. He growled again, closing the distance between them.

“I think you know damn well who’s gonna make you,” he said, eyes fanning the flames in hers. “Now, you gonna give me something to tide me over until I see you again, or am I gonna have to take it?”

He was close enough now, crawling over her body, to see the way the flesh on her arms rose in goosebumps at his words, his weight on her.

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