Sworn by Maria Luis

Author:Maria Luis [Luis, Maria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alkmini Books, LLC
Published: 2018-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

14

Lincoln

A virgin.

It wasn’t a word that existed in my vocabulary and hadn’t been since I was twelve years old and fondling a girl from the grade above me in her daddy’s fancy office. It was the one and only time I’d ever set foot in a house as nice as that, and the only memory I had of the experience was coming in my hand while the girl’s great-grandfather glared down at me from his portrait above the gold-leaf mantle.

Nothing about that orgasm was particularly spectacular, aside from the fact that it was my first, post-virginity-loss.

Shrewdly, I slid my gaze down Avery’s frame.

She’d appeared at the club tonight like an angel designed by my imagination. One minute I’d been seated with Josiah Templeton, a colleague who’d heard about my suspension from the NOPD and wanted to “talk it out,” and in the next I’d been at her side, Templeton summarily dismissed.

From the moment I’d spotted her in Jackson Square, I’d craved her. But right now, when I felt raw to the core after being thrust back into a life that was as familiar as the gun I always kept holstered on me, desperation demanded that I take her. Avery made me feel alive. With her smart mouth and her expressive hazel eyes and the way she watched me like she didn’t know if it was in her best interest to put her stun gun to use or climb on my lap . . . I felt more alive in her presence than I had in my entire life.

And for the length of time that it took for me to have her coming all over my cock as I drove her to the brink, I could pretend, at least, that I wasn’t a man leashed to death.

On the heels of that thought came another: “Your ID says you’re twenty-five.”

She didn’t shirk under my stare. If anything, her chin shot up in that increasingly familiar way of hers and her shoulders squared off like she expected a fight. And that, that was the reason I’d thought of nothing but her since we met. I wanted that fire underneath me, above me, giving as good as I gave to her.

“I am,” she said, her hands at her side, fingers lax. “I have my own reasons for keeping my hymen.”

Her lips quirked, and I got the impression she was waiting for my reaction. But I’d spent years battling my emotions into submission, and I’d be damned if I paraded them before her now.

Softly, I drawled, “And let me guess—those reasons aren’t going to be shared with me?”

If possible, her chin kicked up another notch. Any more and she’d be nose to the sky. “They won’t be,” she confirmed with narrowed eyes.

Avery Washington was a challenge wrapped up in temptation, and against my better judgment, I stepped forward. She surprised the hell out of me by meeting me halfway, her face lifting so that the sparse moonlight highlighted the bridge of her nose and the high crests of her cheeks.

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