Concede (The Diamond Empire Book 1) by Kathy Coopmans (bts book recommendations .TXT) 📕

Those words send tingles down my spine, and I erupt. My orgasm shattering right through me. I swear to God, it’s the first reprieve I’ve felt since the murders.

It’s dirty and wrong. Yet, it feels so right.

He nips my chin, and when he pulls his finger out, stands to full height and licks it clean. I let out a moan. My body wants him inside me.

His gaze trails to where my throat tremors as I stare up at him. There’s so much sincerity in the depth of his eyes. Enough of it to rattle my bones.

I’m at a loss for words. My mind is scrambling to remind me Seth is no good for me, but it’s too late. He makes me feel things I’m having a hard time admitting to myself, things my heart can’t afford.

His throat bobs as he grips hold of his cock at the base and swipes the head across my bottom lip. Heat spreads throughout me.

His dominating way brings something out in me. Not submissive, but powerful. The power I have over this intimidating man as his eyes move softly over my face.

“I would never force you to do something I don’t believe you want to do. But you want this, don’t you? No woman has ever brought me to my knees before, Victoria. You, though, I’d drop and crawl through fire for.”

My heart swells to the extreme, causing another chunk of ice to break and fall, smashing it to smithereens. How can a man like him be rough and violent and softhearted?

Leaning forward before I change my mind, I lick across the engorged head, his musky scent enticing as my tongue swirls around the slit before sliding him to the back of my throat.

”Yes, fuck. Goddamn. I’ve dreamed of these lips. I dreamed about you. Not just this, but everything that makes up you.”

For a minute, Seth stares down at me. His gaze filled with adoration, and my heart leaps.

Air hisses through his teeth as he loses control when I suck hard and slow, lick the entire length, and cup his balls.

Using my lips, he says he loves. I watch Seth’s legs shake, knees trembling, and close my eyes when his hands stab in my hair. Palming my head, and he takes over fucking my mouth with deep strokes that hit the back of my throat.

He groans. He growls, and when I glance up and open my eyes, there’s no avoiding the way he looks at me with as much want and need as I have for him.

This is power. This is being free, and another reprieve even if I’m the one on my knees.

“You drive me crazy, angel. Fucking straight out of my ever-loving mind. I want to stake a claim over every part of you.”

He already has. I’m just too afraid to admit it.

His muscles go taut as I work his cock with my mouth and savor the taste of his skin. A deep growl rattles in his chest when his hips buck, and thick ropes of cum shoot down my throat.

I swallow quickly, and he drags me to my feet, crushes his lips to mine, and kisses me, tangling our tongues and sucking my bottom lip into his mouth.

When he finally lets go, I’m breathless.

This man is going to devour me.

“Oh, and you should probably know, I’m not going anywhere, Victoria. This house is my home as of last night, so get used to seeing me around.”

No, I take the devouring thought back. I take back every look and every sweet word.

Seth Mitchell is a good actor, and if I don’t stay away from him, he’ll destroy me.

CHAPTER SIX

Seth

If looks could kill, I’d be keeling over dying this very second from the way Victoria storms into the kitchen, glaring at me with disgust shimmering from those flawless hazel eyes. Daggers punching holes right through my heart.

That unforgettable face scrubbed clean of the black streaks from yesterday’s mascara that I tried wiping off before I put her to bed. Her hair is in a thick braid and hanging over a shoulder.

She looks innocent this way—a natural beauty. The best part, she’s so disarmingly unaware. I’ve never seen anyone more beautiful in my life.

Emotions shift behind her eyes. So goddamn many I can’t keep up.

She’s drowning in them.

I observed them all vying for her attention long before she noticed me standing in the bedroom doorway. Severe agony slashed across her face. It about knocked me on my ass. Victoria is suppressing and holding them tight to her chest. An unstable beauty full of grief and anger and want and need.

Confused and lost.

Have a feeling she doesn’t know what to deal with first. And that makes me a desperate fucking man to veer Victoria back on the right path.

Straight toward me.

Christ, I’m fucked up in the head. Shoving her when there’s a ticking time bomb inside, waiting to explode. The damage will rip her to shreds. But sometimes, that’s what a person needs—a dose of reality to disengage the final countdown.

Do I feel bad for pushing? For being up in her space when I know damn well, she could detonate at any second?

Yes, I do.

Will it stop me?

Fuck no.

I refuse.

“I won’t apologize for anything that happened or what I said. So, before you start bitching at me, you might want to tamp it down, or I’ll make our living arrangements much harder on you.”

She pulls in a sharp inhale, lips quivering, close to coming unhinged. And that’s exactly what I want.

More importantly, what she needs.

About lost my shit too when I saw the bruise on her creamy skin. I clenched my jaw so fucking tight my teeth hurt. Made me want to kill Agent Wozniak all over again.

“You took advantage of my vulnerability for your own sexual gratification. What kind of man does that? Oh, wait. Don’t bother answering. I already know. The Devil.”

I let out a small chuckle and watch her eyes narrow.

Victoria can unleash on me all she