I rocked my hips against her again, and her death grip around my neck loosened a hair.
“I’m going to make you come right here,” I promised. “In the hallway, so there’s no question of who you belong to.”
“Please don’t,” she whispered, but her fingers had turned into claws, digging into my neck instead of clutching at me with terror. Each time my cock slid against her, she whimpered. “No,” she begged. “Not like this. I don’t want them to?—”
I turned my face until I could capture her lips with mine.
“Kitten, you don’t want them to what?” I whisperedagainst her mouth. “You don’t want them to see how fucking hot you are as you rub yourself all over my cock, with your cheeks rosy and your nipples hard as glass underneath your sweater? You don’t want them to see me losing my fucking mind over you?”
Eva’s eyes flew to mine, and she blinked, as if she couldn’t decide whether to give in to me or shove me away. Too bad my grip was too strong.
“You don’t want them to see you needy and flushed and so fucking stunning, I might come in my pants?”
Eva buried her face in my hair, her hips moving in time with mine. She was pressed so tightly against the wall, I could have let her go, but when I loosened one hand, she grabbed at me.
“You have a safeword, kitten.” She gripped me tighter, her fingers digging into my neck, but she didn’t say anything. “I’ve got you,” I growled. “I swear it.”Forever.
Her fingers tangled in my curls as she rode me. “Please,” she moaned. “I need—I need—oh! Tristan!”
I wanted to mark her, wanted everyone who walked by to know she was mine, wanted to leave bruises on her hips and marks on her throat, wanted that asshole to walk out of the classroom and see exactly who this stunning, determined women had claimed as hers.
Her fingers tightened against my skull as she seized, her entire body tightening, curling into me as she came. “Tristan!” she cried out, and fuck, it was the hottest thing I’d ever seen.
I couldn’t hold back any longer. “Eva,” I whispered into her neck as I came, a burst of pleasure exploding out from the base of my spine as I ejaculated in my fucking pants like I was twelve years old.
Her legs dropped from around my waist, and I let her slide down the wall.
Eva trembled like a leaf in the wind, her hands catching on my shirt. I wrapped my arms around her and drew her to me, one hand on her back, the other cradling the back of her head, pressing her cheek into my chest as we both gasped and panted for air.
“I’ve got you,” I murmured, pressing my lips to the top of her head. “You’re okay. I’ve got you.”
Eva didn’t say anything, but her arms dropped from where they were trapped between us to wrap around my waist.
“Also, I haven’t come in my pants in a long fucking time,” I muttered into her hair.
She giggled, and my heart eased. Eva fought so hard to hold on to her control, but with me? She was willing to let go, even in a quasi-public place, like the hallway of the engineering building.
“You’re mine, Eva.”
She hummed but didn’t respond, which was basically agreement, as far as I was concerned.
“And if you ever give your number to another man, I’ll break his fingers, then I’ll fuck you in front of him, so he knows what he’s missing.”
“You sound like Cole,” she giggled.
“He’s got the right idea when it comes to you.”
44
COLE
“Your father would liketo speak with you,” his receptionist said when I arrived at the top floor of Carter Industries, determined to squeeze in a few hours of work before the game.
I was exhausted.
I’d spent the night at Alek’s, staring at Eva’s sleeping face, cataloging every freckle, memorizing the way she fit against me. It should have been amazing to have her back. Instead, it felt like I was standing on crumbling ground, waiting for the inevitable collapse.
My father wouldn’t tolerate cheating on Delaney or anything else that might put this merger at risk. I’d done it anyway.Weak, pathetic, fucking fool.I was a moth drawn to Eva’s flame, helpless against the pull of her fierce determination, her sweetness when she let her mask fall, and the way she looked at me like I was more than just the heir to Jedediah Carter’s millions.