Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan

Author:Rosie Danan [Danan, Rosie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2023-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Clark couldn’t get the taste of Riley out of his mouth.

He’d been so foolish. So bloody eager. Desperate enough for her after prolonged exposure, all that frustrated wanting, that he’d ignored every warning sign. Told himself it was just sex. Nothing to get worked up over.

It was pathetic the way she’d made an absolute mug of him. In his bed, he might have been the one on top, but Riley had him eating out of the palm of her hand.

He’d expected her to strike against him, just not like that. Not then.

Riley had gotten close to him only long enough to find his weakest spots, waiting for the perfect opportunity to go in for the kill.

It was even more humiliating, somehow, that he’d tried his hand at deceiving her only last week and failed so spectacularly. Apparently six months of moody reflection and self-flagellation had taught Clark nothing about betrayal. Riley hadn’t slipped past his defenses; he’d lowered them for her willingly, practically fell over himself to do her bidding.

Hadn’t he been drawn to her—a moth to a flame—the first night they’d met? Was it any wonder, then, that in trying to touch her he’d gotten burned?

At least now he was well and truly done. Clark should thank her for knocking some sense into him. Under no circumstances would he allow himself to go near Riley Rhodes again. If that meant abandoning his camper in the middle of a terrible storm, so be it. His entire home smelled of her anyway. Of them. It would take days to air out.

Instead of finding somewhere dry to sleep, he’d gone back to the castle and worked, shivering through the last howls of the rain. The survey grounded him. Demanded exertion, concentration. With tools in hand, all that mattered was completing the assignment. Clark labored until his body mirrored his emotions—wrung out, used.

When he’d finally gone back to the camper after dawn, it was empty except for the full kind of silence that came after a violent storm. He yanked a comb through his hair until he looked like a man who didn’t know the word ravished. Shaved with savage precision. Cinched his tool belt and relaced his boots.

Clark wasn’t born yesterday. He understood casual sex. It wasn’t like he thought Riley was his girlfriend or something because she let him put his mouth on her. But he certainly believed that when you got naked with someone, you should treat them with respect. Part of that unspoken covenant meant not throwing their worst insecurities in their face before the come had even dried.

His face heated. Clark knew he had a filthy mouth in bed, but that was different. He could let himself go carnal, unfiltered in the heat of the moment, when blood abandoned his brain for more urgent demands. Riley brought it out in him like no other partner, daring him at every turn to show her how base he could be. He found her responses—equal parts yielding and resistance—singularly addictive.

But he couldn’t have let her into his bed without a considerable degree of trust.

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