Chapter 204

His brain had gotten the memo. His libido didn’t give a shit. That part of him had zero intention of letting her go.

Sliding his way up Laila’s body and taking her in his arms, he stared down at her flushed cheeks and parted lips, drinking in her panting breaths. She lifted her heavy lids and stared back. God, she took his breath away.

“Has that ever happened to you before?”

She looked away self-consciously. “A man putting his mouth on my… No.”

Trees cupped her face and coaxed her stare back to him. “I meant orgasm. Ever had one?”

“No. Before you, I had never even been kissed.”

Oh, Jesus. He’d been the first? How the fuck was that possible?

He scrubbed a hand down his face. Had he misunderstood her? “Laila, are you a virgin?”

She sent him a bitter laugh. “Not for many years.”

How many? She couldn’t be more than twenty-two. Fuck, he felt lecherous, wanting a woman who was more than a dozen years younger. But everything in his gut