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  Derek shook his head in amazement. “Am I really hearing this? You, the serial bed-hopper---”

  “Pot, kettle,” Nick taunted.

  As if not hearing Nick’s words, Derek continued, “Since when have you started being just friends with a girl?"

  "Since this girl.”

  "This I've got to see," Reid said.

  "Hear, hear."Christien raised his beer for a toast.

  The others followed but Nick shook his head. “No.” He clicked his can with the others.

  Christien gave him a sly look. "Worried we're going to steal her away?"

  “You sound like my brother. You think too much of your charms, my friend.”

  “Yes,” Reid drawled. “I think he’s worried.”

  Nick rolled his eyes. "No, I'm worried you guys are going to corrupt her."

  Christien laughed. "That's rich, coming from you.”

  It was Derek’s turn to taunt. “Pot, kettle.”

  Nick flipped him the bird.

  Derek just smiled. “Why don’t you want us to meet her, Nick?”

  Nick said carefully, “She’s…different. I really don’t mind you meeting her but…fine.” He took out his phone.

  Nick: How do you feel about going to a gamer’s paradise tomorrow after school? Beta testing what’s considered the best game for next year.

  Lilac: What time do we leave?

  Nick couldn’t help but grin at the reply, which had come faster than usual. Trust Lilac to be this eager to go out with him – and not for the same reasons most women wanted to be with him.

  Nick: Fetch you at school 7PM.

  Lilac: Got it.

  This time he laughed outright. For once, Lilac hadn’t even argued with him about transportation. Most times, they wasted half an hour arguing Nick’s inflexible stance on not letting Lilac drive whenever they went out.

  Pocketing his phone, Nick looked up to find all his friends looking at him. “What?” Was it just him or did he sound a tad defensive there?

  Everyone suddenly suddenly busy, Derek shrugging, Christien popping a new beer can open and Reid checking his own phone with a frown. But all of the fucking jerks had smirks on their faces.

  Nick flipped them the bird. “Fuck you all.”

  Everyone stopped pretending, doubling over with laughter instead.

  “You should have seen your face while texting, man,” Reid said. “I think old-fashioned “smitten” is the word.”

  “Again---” Nick gave Reid the finger.

  Christien asked, “So we’re good tomorrow?”

  Nick nodded. “I have a meeting with Jason for a possible investment in a gaming company. We’ll be testing products tomorrow tonight at our headquarters. I’ve invited her and you guys can come along if you want.”

  “A business meeting about a gaming company?” Derek echoed incredulously.

  “Have you lost your touch, old man?” Christien asked, grinning.

  “What the fuck are you thinking, taking a chick to a place like that?” Reid’s tone was cynical. “She’ll be bored in a minute and then she’d be nagging you to death.”

  Nick only smiled. “That’s what you think.”

  “Your risk,” Derek answered with a shrug.

  Nick’s tone was smug. “No. It’s my gain.”

  ****

  “You are…kidding me.” Lilac flopped on her seat beside Nick in the car, her pale violet eyes going doll-like in wonder at Nick’s announcement.

  He grinned, loving how Lilac was looking at him now. It was, he mused, as if he had just become a god in her eyes. It was a fucking turn-on, and he did his best to control his erection. He didn’t want to muddy the waters between them even more than he already had last night.

  Nick took out his phone and tossed it to Lilac, who caught it handily. “Check out my reading app. You’ll see the contract there.” He waited patiently, and after a few moments was rewarded by Lilac’s gasp.

  “No…way,” she exclaimed.

  Lilac’s words got out another grin from him. Only Lilac could make such simple words sound so…delicate, with the care she exercised every time she spoke.

  “Oh my God,” she whispered next, her eyes still glued to the screen. “The company you just bought…owns...the rights to…Ronin?” When she turned to him for confirmation, Lilac was starry-eyed.

  It was…too much.

  For tonight, Nick had dressed to impress, with the insane urge to drive Lilac crazy with desire. And though he had seen the way Lilac swallow nervously at the sight of him in another custom-designed three-piece suit, she had only nodded and said, “Hello.” Lilac’s sexy cool attitude, knowing it wasn’t fake, made last night seem like it had only been one hell of a wet dream.

  Nick’s fingers tightened around the steering wheel. A wet dream, he thought, he wanted to goddamn experience again.

  For tonight, Nick had gotten his most expensive sports car out, a red top-down coupe that had never failed to make the women he dated in the past melt like honey in his arms. But Lilac had only blinked. “New…toy?” She had sounded so blank Nick almost believed she really was talking about something he had bought from a toy shop. Worse, the way she said ‘toy’ was enough to have his lust reaching new heights, making Nick fantasize about having Lilac as his very willing toy.

  But then this.

  When Nick wasn’t trying at all, only wanting to share his news because he knew Lilac would appreciate it --- Lilac was suddenly looking at him like he was a fucking knight in shining armor.

  It was too much, too hot, and it caught him off guard. With just one blink of those eyes, made sexier by the oh-so-impressed stars in them, and Nick’s lust knew no bounds.

  Lilac let out a little shriek when Nick stepped on the gas just as they reached the basement parking entrance of a magnificent skyscraper, its entire structure made of ice-blue-tinted glass. She let out another shriek, holding on to the dashboard even though she was strapped in her seat, her eyes widening at the way Nick was suddenly driving like a maniac.

  “Nick?” Her voice came out high-pitched as Nick continued to drive like a madman, the twists and turns making her feel light-headed.

  She let out her third shriek when he made one particularly hard turn, causing Lilac to tumble against him. She twisted her head to glare at him upon hearing Nick chuckle. “Not funny,” she hissed, albeit breathlessly.

  Nick’s tires screeched as he drove his car smoothly into the parking slot allotted for him and Jason. Locking gazes with Lilac, he silently demanded her to just look at him, just think of him even as he called the head of his security on his mobile.

  “I don’t want to be disturbed.”

  Lilac stiffened at the now-familiar words.

  Uh…oh…

  It was the only thing she managed to think of before Nick tossed his phone away and bent over to unlock Lilac’s seatbelt. Beautifully warm lips met with hers even as Lilac dimly felt Nick lifting her bodily from her seat and depositing her on his lap, her legs straddling his hips.

  When Nick let her up for air, Lilac tried to speak but her voice failed at the feel of something exquisitely hard poking between her legs. She gazed at Nick, and her mouth completely dried at the desire burning in his brilliantly blue gaze.

  Oh. My. God.

  “Nick.” This time, her voice was throaty with the same kind of need.

  “You make me want you so fucking easily.” His fingers curled into her hair, fisting it, and then using it to pull her down so he could take her lips once more. She moaned as their lips met, and then her lips were parting open and his tongue slid inside as if it had once again found its home.

  “Nick.” This was wrong. This was dangerous. This was not supposed to happen between friends. She knew all those were true, but she couldn’t help losing herself in the dark pleasure of Nick’s kiss, the expert movement of his lips, the heat of his tongue, all of it more than enough to have her head spin.

  Forget about what was right, Lilac thought in
a daze as her arms went around his neck like it was her only anchor. This was what had kept her awake the whole night, the thing that had her tongue-tied the moment she had seen Nick outside her front door, the thing that had her body shaking so hard now it was almost as if she had an earthquake of need to quench inside her.

  “Can we cheat for tonight, sweetheart?” Nick asked hoarsely as he reluctantly let go of her lips to allow Lilac to breathe. He pulled her turtleneck down so he could kiss his way to her collarbone then going back up to suck on her neck.

  “C-cheat?” She arched her neck, arched her entire body just to give him access. It made her feel deliciously wanton, and the heady feeling had her grinding her soft mound against his rock-hard erection.

  Nick let out a guttural sound of satisfaction and need, his fingers digging into her hips even as he sucked harder at her neck. As she moaned, he gritted harshly, “Let’s be bad for tonight.” He lifted his head up and saw her doll eyes widen in confusion. His hips rose up in response, trying to push his restricted cock into her equally covered softness.

  “Bad?”

  The word sounded even sexier when she whispered it with such innocent sweetness. He bit her lip, making her whimper. “Yes,” he growled. “Let’s be bad. No excuses about what we’re doing. Just how hot I am for you.” He grabbed her hand and brought it to his cock. She gasped, but her fingers curled around his length at the same time.

  Nick’s breathing hitched at the incredible sensation of having Lilac hold his cock. “Do you feel how hot I am for you?” At her nod, he released her hand to delve into her softness, pressing on her tiny nub of pleasure. She moaned.

  “Yes,” he rasped. “I feel it, too, manari mou. You’re fucking hot for me, too, aren’t you?”

  Lilac only whimpered and bucked her hips in answer, silently telling him she wanted more of his touch.

  “You have to tell me clearly you want this, too.”

  She glared at him in frustration.

  He managed a smile even though he felt his cock was close to bursting. “Say you want---”

  Lilac cupped his face with both hands and kissed him, her tongue aggressively pushing into his lips, answering his question better than any words. Nick’s laughter was triumphant and dark, but she didn’t care. All she wanted was more of Nick and his drugging caresses.

  His hands were busy now, impatiently pulling her turtleneck dress up and over her head. He tossed it into the passenger seat next to them and a few seconds later, her bra followed.

  She heard a clicking sound right before they fell. “Ah!” Lilac exclaimed in surprise as Nick’s seat fell back, causing her to fall on him as well and smashing his face with her bare breasts. “Oh!” She turned red.

  “Heaven,” Nick growled just before he cupped her breasts and took one nipple in.

  A strangled moan escaped her, and she could only grip his shoulders as he sucked long and hard at her nipple. Another moan came out of her lips when Nick did the same to her other nipple, Lilac’s fingers tightening around his shoulders.

  “Nick.” She moaned out loud, her body on fire. She tossed her head back even as she found her fingers moving up to grip his head.

  Nick shuddered when Lilac’s grip on his hair tightened, using it to push his head forward as if wanting him to suck her nipples harder. It was a hell of a turn on, having the usually placid Lilac be this demanding. It made his cock rear up, so painfully hard he knew he would be experiencing a mind blowing orgasm later.

  He let go of her nipple just long enough to command, “Take off your panties.” Then he went back to sucking her nipples, deliberately making noise as he did.

  The sound of Nick sucking on her nipple was the hottest sound she had ever heard, enough to make her eyes dilate, her toes curl, and wetness to flood her core. She hurried to do as bid, her fingers clumsy, and her wriggling movements only forcing her to press her body more insistently against Nick. It pushed her nipple further into his mouth, so much that Nick was now sucking a part of her breast.

  “Oh.” The sensation was unbelievable, the pleasure she experienced so agonizingly vivid she was in a daze as she finally managed to throw her panties to the floor. Before she could tell him she was done, it seemed that Nick already knew, his fingers moving down. She held her breath when he reached the edge of the triangle between her legs, and she inhaled more sharply as he traced the diagonal line of her hip.

  “Nick.” It was all she could manage to say.

  He finally let her nipple go, and his hand immediately rubbed it soothingly. Nick looked up at her as his other fingers drifted closer to her core.

  “Do you want me, Lilac?”

  She nodded.

  “Do you want me to take you with my fingers?”

  She nodded then gasped because he was already doing it, sinking two fingers into her folds at the same time. Just like that and she already felt too full, making her wonder how it would be like if it was his enormous cock pushing inside her.

  The thought was more than enough to have her head spin, making her even more slippery with wetness inside.

  “Sweetheart, you’re so wet it’s fu…it’s killing me.” Out of the blue, the thought of having his crude words remind Lilac of James Caruthers cropped up, and Nick swiftly changed his words.

  She shook her head at him, her long dark hair swaying behind her like a beautiful veil. “It’s…okay.” Lilac’s smile was even more exquisite, and a bolt of pure pleasure shot through him at the sight of it. “You can talk…dirty.” She leaned forward, saying awkwardly, shyly, “I…like it if…it’s…you.”

  “Ah, fuck, Lilac, fuck, fuck, fuck.” He hauled her down to kiss her hard and she giggled against his lips. He started fucking her with his fingers, too, and her giggles quickly disappeared, replaced instantly by whimpers.

  He fucked her long and hard, a part of him wanting her to be ready for his penetration, if there ever would be a time he would have Lilac’s virginity, for better or for worse. He groaned when she started moving in rhythm with his fingers, the raw sounds of his fingers sliding in and out of her erotic beyond belief.

  “Lilac, goddamn, no…” He groaned loud when Lilac’s fingers slipped into the waistband of his pants, into his briefs and then down to brush against the head of his cock. And then she was gripping him, her fingers curling around his cock.

  His entire body jerked, his cock shooting up in her hand while his fingers thrust into her harder.

  Both of them let out strangled sounds of pleasure, their desire-glazed eyes meeting.

  “I want you…to come.” His little lamb wasn’t so shy anymore, and the determination in her voice just pushed him closer to the edge.

  “We’ll come together,” he agreed rawly and this time when he started moving his fingers in and out of her, she did the same, matching his rhythm with the way she rubbed his cock up and down.

  “Faster.” He thrust his fingers faster and even as she gasped, she was doing the same to his cock, making Nick gasp as well.

  “Harder. Squeeze me.” As he increased the strength of his fingers’ thrusts, she mimicked his strength, squeezing his cock hard even as she continued with her sure, steady, and fucking hot strokes.

  “I’m about to come,” he gritted.

  “Me…too.”

  He didn’t wait for Lilac to say anything else, simply moving his thumb up so he could press down on her clit even as he continued fucking her with his fingers. She came with a scream, her fingers tightening reflexively around his cock, her thumb moving up to press down on the wet sensitive slit of the head of his cock.

  “Fuck! Lilac, don’t fucking stop.” Nick threw his head back as he came as well, body shuddering as Lilac continued stroking his cock while her thumb caressed the head of his cock.

  Lilac collapsed against his chest after, her hand still curled around his semi-erect cock. Nick kissed her hair as he carefully pulled his fingers out, the popping sound making Lilac whimper in embarrassment.

  He chuckled.<
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  She pinched his shoulder, weakly.

  He laughed.

  She growled.

  Nick kissed her hair again. “Lilac.” He came to a decision. “I want to fuck you for real.”

  Silence.

  “This isn’t…real?”

  His hand went around her nape, a possessive hold that had her shivering. And then Nick was making her look up, Lilac obeying the silent command because she couldn’t help it. “Don’t play word games with me, sweetheart. You know what I mean.” His hold on her nape tightened, and his voice was rough with passion as he told her, “I haven’t fucked anyone else since we started being friends, Lilac. I just want you.”

  His words made it hard to breathe. Lilac wanted to look away, but Nick’s blue eyes weren’t going to let her go so easily. Fear made her mouth dry at what Nick was asking. “Nick…I’m scared.”

  Nick’s face remained implacable. “Friends trust each other, Lilac. So trust me.” His heartbeat was like an unstoppable bullet train inside him as he waited for her answer. Maybe if he wasn’t selfish, he would have cared that he would be taking Lilac’s virginity – something that should belong to a man who could truly love her as she deserved.

  But he wasn’t that kind of man.

  He was Nick Christakos, and he wanted Lilac like he had wanted no other – not even Karla.

  “Lilac, look at me.”

  Her eyes rose up to meet him once more, pale violet wide like a doll’s that he could never get tired gazing at. Nick said fiercely, “I might not be able to love you like other men could but with me, sweetheart, you’ll never have to be scared---”

  Lilac’s breath caught as he held her cheek, his touch so reverent it made her swallow.

  “With me, you will always be a lady. My lady.”

  The Thirteenth Encounter

  Nick Christakos took a long time to shower.

  It was a startling fact, and it helped somewhat calm Lilac’s still-racing heartbeat. By tacit agreement, they had chosen not to talk about what Nick had asked, fingers twined with each other as Nick used his private elevator to go straight to his office. “I need to change,” he told her with a rueful look at his pants.