Vicious Temptation: A Dark Mafia Romance (Dark Temptation Book 1) by M. James & Ivy Thorn

Author:M. James & Ivy Thorn [James, M. & Thorn, Ivy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PNK Publishing
Published: 2024-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

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From what I can tell, Bella sleeps through the night. She’s still asleep when I wake up at my usual time, stirring a little at the sound of my alarm, but I quickly turn it off, and she sinks back into sleep. I move around the room as quietly as I can, dressing to go down to the basement gym and work out, and she doesn’t show any signs of waking again as I slip out of the room.

Down in the gym, I throw myself into the workout, verging on punishing myself for my arousal last night—and this morning. I woke up hard as a rock, forcing myself to ignore it. I go through my rounds on the boxing bag and lift weights, do crunches and push-ups until I’m breathless and sore and too tapped out on energy to focus on the ache in my balls. The desire has relented for now, but I know as soon as I see her in my bed, it’s going to come back in full force.

Instead, I slink off to one of the other showers, on the floor with all of the guest rooms. It’s cowardly of me, but I know exactly what’s going to happen if I go back to my room, and see her curled up in my sheets. I’m going to want to slide back into bed, to breathe in the sleepy, warm scent of her hair and body, to press my hard cock against her until she opens her thighs and begs for it. It’s too easy to imagine, and even though I know that’s not how it would go in reality, it doesn’t keep me from imagining it.

I’m not going to give in, I tell myself firmly as I feel myself stiffen, the excruciating workout still not enough to keep all the blood from shooting straight to my cock the minute I start fantasizing about Bella. But I force myself to ignore it, exercising every bit of self-control that I have remaining. She’s going to be sleeping in my bed for the better part of the next week. If I start letting myself jerk off regularly to thoughts of her, it’s going to be far too slippery a slope when she’s right next to me in bed.

Especially not when I saw her reaction yesterday to my teasing command. When I can all too easily remember the look in her eyes when I came a breath away from kissing her that night in the living room. She feels something, too—this spark isn’t entirely one-sided, and it’s up to me to be the responsible one, the honorable one. To be the man who doesn’t take advantage of her, when so many others have.

Even if it feels like it’s going to kill me sometimes. Even though I can’t help wondering why the first woman I’ve truly wanted in so long, the first one I’ve not only desired but also liked, has to be a woman who is so completely off-limits to me in every imaginable way.

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