A Mate for Gideon(48)

“I’m not.” He growled, biting down on his lip. “I need to keep you safe. I failed before and I won’t let that happen again. I would rather fucking die. Do you hear me?”

“No. I don’t.” She put her hands on her hips. “We can go and speak with Brant together.”

Gideon sucked in a deep breath. He pinched the bridge of his nose. “York rutted with a female he shouldn’t have and do you know what ended up happening?” He didn’t wait for her to respond. “She was sent home. I can’t let that happen, Jenna. Not with that fucker out there. I first need to get his ass into a shallow grave and then we’ll approach the kings.”

“Please don’t do it.” She chewed on her bottom lip. “Don’t kill Liam.”

“Why the fuck not? Please don’t tell me that you still have feelings for him.” Gideon felt his hackles rise. Felt his blood turn cold.

“No.” She shot daggers at him with her eyes. “I hate him. Don’t ever question my feelings for that asshole.” Her whole demeanor softened. “I would hate to see something happen to you though. He’s a police officer. If you were caught…” She shook her head.

“It would be worth it.”

“Not to me.” Her eyes filled with tears. “He’s not worth it, Gideon.” Her lip wobbled and he crumbled. “Don’t you see? You are everything to me…if anything ever happened to you it would kill me.”

He went to her, cupping her jaw. Reveling in her soft skin. “Don’t cry,” he whispered.

“Promise me that you’ll stay away from him. Please.” Her lip wobbled more, her eyes were wide with fear. This time, the fear was for him and not because of him.

Gideon felt everything in him tighten. Letting the fucker continue to breathe went against everything in him. How could he deny her though? “Fine,” he growled. “But only if he stays far away from you.”

“I’m staying right here, so he won’t come anywhere near me.” She smiled. Her eyes twinkled. She threw her arms around him, pushing her softness against him.

Gideon slid his hands onto the smooth skin on her back. He had to groan. His dick ached with the need to be inside her.

“I need you,” she whispered against his chest.

“It kills me to deny you…to deny us both, but we have to wait. I only hope I don’t go blind in the meanwhile.”

“Blind?” She pulled away from him while looking into his eyes. Her brow was creased and her eyebrows raised.

Gideon had to smile. “I read it on the internet once. Masturbation causes blindness.”

Jenna laughed. “You don’t believe that, do you?”

Gideon shook his head. “No, but we’ll know for sure soon enough. I have eased myself often since you came back. I’m surprised I don’t have blisters by now.”

She laughed hard and her breasts jiggled, causing him to growl. “Get on the bed.”

Jenna gasped. “Why? I thought—”

“Get on the bed and spread your legs. I can scent your arousal and want to ease you. We can’t rut but I can make one of us happy…namely you.”

She shook her head.

“Why not?” He groaned.

“Because it wouldn’t be fair.” Her eyes were hooded and she licked her lips, giving them a moist sheen. His dick throbbed beneath his tight pants.

“Are you saying that you won’t let me touch you until I have spoken with my king?” It would kill him. To not be able to sink himself into her and, even worse, to not be able to at least touch her…it would fucking kill him.

Jenna bit down on her bottom lip, denting it with her teeth. “You lie down on the bed.”

Gideon shook his head. “We can’t…” He could hear the panicked edge to his voice.

Jenna rolled her eyes and made an exasperated noise. “I want to give you a blow job…we can sixty-nine.”

“What does math have to do with it? You and your numbers…” Then he realized what she had said. “Blow job?” It came out sounding less than manly so he cleared his throat.

“You will love it…this has nothing to do with math…then again…1 plus 1 does equal two.”

“Fuck, Jen, you’re losing me here.” He kept his hands fisted at his sides to stop himself from lunging at her.

She threw him a sexy smile that made more blood divert south. “We can both come at the same time without having sex.”

He had to put a hand over his dick to stop himself from coming in his pants. Just the thought of Jenna getting off made him hornier than the devil himself. Being able to come at the same time did not seem possible without having full-blown, no holds barred sex.