Start With A Slap by Sirena Wise

Author:Sirena Wise [Wise, Sirena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Better Late Books
Published: 2024-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Devil May Care

He’d forgotten how it felt — waking up to a girl he actually liked.

First, there was a warm rush of Won Her victory trailed by a hot swell of Keep Her desire... both of which were then stabbed through the heart by an icy blade of Don’t Be A Ruddy Fool, You Daft Wanker.

“Anyone’s the Devil in this room, it’s you,” he whispered as he slid a lock of hair out of her sleeping face. “Put me under a spell but good.”

The corners of her mouth turned up.

I’ll be damned. He’d be remiss if he didn’t announce the occasion: “There’s my smile.”

Her eyes fluttered open. She focused on him, her smile faded, and then came the inevitable face of morning-after regret he’d been hoping to delay: “Oh, god.”

He rolled his eyes.

Ivy sat up and held her head. “Oh, god!”

“Is this the part where you blame the absinthe and play at not remembering?” Sever wasn’t having it. She may have been buzzed enough to shed her inhibitions, but he’d bet his entire fortune she knew perfectly damned well what she was doing. “If so, wake me when it all comes flooding back.”

“Sever! This was easy for you. Not for me, okay?”

That... made sense. “Yeah, okay.”

“You had nothing to lose. I have... everything... Oh, god.”

She was falling apart. He sat up, touched her hair. “Ivy. He doesn’t ever have to know.”

“You don’t understand.” She swatted his hand away. “That’s not the way I am. I don’t know how I can ever face him again!”

“So don’t,” Sever said with an ever-so-casual shrug, not sure where the idea was coming from. “Stay here with me. Here in Paris.”

“Are you crazy?” She goggled at him.

“Maybe.” As he searched her eyes, he caught an interesting flicker. “But part of you likes the idea.”

She turned away with a scoff. “Every part of me wishes to God I had never done this.”

Affronted, he thumbed her spot, made her quiver. “Every part?”

“Stop!” She spun away, covering her breasts with the sheet. “Look. I admit it, okay, you are... amazing in bed. You’re... superhumanly amazing. I can’t say I didn’t enjoy some... moments.” At his arched brow, she corrected, “Or even the whole... yeah, okay, all of it, but it’s over now. You got what you wanted from me and now I have to get out of here and face my mistakes and figure out what to do.”

“I think you misinterpreted my use of the word ‘affair’, Ivy. I want to have an affair with you. Not a fling. Not a one-night stand. Affair implies a long-term commitment and that’s what I intend to have with you.”

“You don’t get to decide these things alone! Relationships are not one-sided.”

“This isn’t one-sided! You were right there with me last night, body and soul. You looked at me like⁠—”

“I looked at you like I look at everyone I have sex with.”

“Oh, so that’s just your game.”

“You think you know me, just because we...” Her mouth tightened. “You don’t.”

Before she got out of bed, he seized her by the waist, pulled her down to her side and held her tight.

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