Chapter Twenty-One
Sarah
My lips parted, allowing Dmitri’s tongue to slip into my mouth, deepening the kiss. My hands slipped around his neck, pulling him closer.
This time, I wasn’t going to pull away. This time, I was going to let myself seize the pleasure of the moment.
After what happened at the gym, I needed this. I was more emotionally raw than I’d been since I was pregnant and my hormones were out of control. But what I was going through today wasn’t anything like the time I cried over a broken bottle of nail polish.
I was scared after someone tried to kidnap Alexis. I needed comfort, but even more than that, I needed assurance that he would continue to keep us safe. I thought he was being overprotective when he insisted that Nikolay accompany us, but now I knew he was right to arrange protection. I’d never been more thankful for anything in my entire life.
I was starting to see that this man reappearing in my life when he did was nothing short of a miracle. How could I keep fighting my growing feelings for him in the face of that?
Giving in was so much easier than trying to keep distance between us.
His hand slid up my thigh and traced the curve of my side. When he reached my breasts, he pinched my hardened nipple through my shirt and bra, making me moan into his mouth as I arched my back. Our tongues tangled, and he shifted me on his lap until I was straddling him.
The bulge of his erection pressed between my legs, and the new position allowed him to use both hands to fondle me. He pushed up my shirt and sports bra to expose my breasts, breaking our kiss to latch onto my nipple.
Heat pumped through my veins, and my eyes fluttered closed. I ground myself against him, electric shocks of pleasure coursing through me as his jeans caused friction against my clit through my leggings.
“That’s right, baby,” he said in a guttural voice. “Use me to get yourself off. Take what you need from me.”
There was an unexpected submission to his statement that caused warmth to spread through me and increased my lust in a way that scrambled my thoughts in the best way. My concerns and fears melted away to nothing. The trauma of finding my boss’s body and being threatened in the parking lot. The confusion that came from being around Dmitri again and not fully trusting him. The shock and horror of the attempted kidnaping and worry about the future. None of it weighed me down as I lost myself in the building pleasure.
“Dmitri,” I moaned, tossing my head back. I barely had the wherewithal to think about being quiet, but I managed to keep my voice low enough that it wouldn’t be heard in the kitchen on the other side of the door. “It feels so good.”
His hands moved to my hips, guiding my movements to that I was riding the bulge in his jeans faster and rougher. My breasts bounced around, making it impossible for him to keep using his mouth on my nipples, so he tilted his head to look up into my face instead, his eyes dark with desire.
“I’ve thought about this tight body so many times over the years,” he said. “The way you felt when I sank inside you thatnight. The way you squeezed me when you came on my cock.Fuck.”
His dirty words make a tidal wave crash over me, my orgasm hitting hard enough to make me gasp and shudder as I moaned. My core clenched hard on nothing, and I wished he was buried deep inside me. That would be the only thing that could make this better. Dmitri’s hands tightened on my hips, and he stared at my face as I fell apart, his entire focus on me, as if he couldn’t look away.
As my orgasm passed, I kissed him again. He quickly took control, and his hunger for me was overwhelming. It didn’t matter that I’d just dry humped him like a horny teenager. I already wanted more.
My hands went to his belt, but before I even started unbuckling it, there was a knock on the office door. We froze.
“Guys?” Alina called through the closed door. “Alexis is asking for Sarah.”
I scrambled off of Dmitri’s lap, pulling down my bra and shirt as reality came crashing over me.
What the hell am I doing?
It was easy to get caught up in the need for comfort and the passion that this man ignited inside me so easily, but this wasn’t a good idea. Dmitri might have been proving himself to be a good man over the past few days, despite his profession, but that didn’t make this situation any less complicated. The court case would resume tomorrow, and I was still a key witness. We’d both be at the courthouse tomorrow, and I still didn’t know exactly what I was going to say on the stand.
Since I was forced to testify, I would prefer to tell the truth, that I saw a group of men threaten Mr. Moss three daysbefore I discovered his body, but they didn’t physically harm him at all. That might not look good for Dmitri if the DA could provide compelling evidence that he was connected to those men, but I hoped his lawyer could give a good enough defense to create reasonable doubt. Surely, that was why the men in the parking lot threatened me. They must have decided that the truth wasn’t damning enough to ensure a conviction, so they wanted me to lie.
If I told the jury I actuallysawDmitri kill my boss, I was sure there was a much better chance he’d be found guilty. But the thought of doing that made my stomach turn. I didn’t think I could do it. I didn’twantto do it. Not just because it was morally wrong, but if I got caught in the lie… No judge would believe I was forced into it. I’d end up in jail myself and my daughter…
But could I risk my life and my daughter’s life and not do what they wanted?
Dmitri was keeping us safe now, but what if I was wrong? What if I told the truth, and he was still found guilty? He’d go to prison, and I would be unprotected from men who would likely follow through on their threats because I didn’t do as they asked.
I had to decide what I would do when I took the stand tomorrow, and getting physical with Dmitri now just made the decision harder to make. Dread settled low in my stomach.
Dmitri stood, understanding in his eyes despite the bulge in his pants. “Go to her. We can pick this up later.”
Damn it.His easy willingness to put Alexis first just presented another complication. He was her father, and I had tell him. Especially before things got complicated.