Dimitri's Forbidden Submissive(56)
“You like?”
It took her a moment to find her voice. “Dimitri, I can’t take these! This is crazy. Please, take it back.”
He grabbed her hands before she could move to take the jewelry off and captured her gaze in the mirror. “You will take them. Please. Do this for me.”
“I can’t.” She tried to pull her hands away but he held her tight. “This must have cost a fortune. I can’t take it.”
A pained look entered his gaze. “Rya, please accept my gift. I have more money than you can imagine, but no one to spend it on. Please let me give you this. It is nothing but metal and rocks. Let me show you how much you mean to me in one of the only ways I know how. I do not have the words to tell you what I feel. Please allow me to do it instead by giving you beautiful things that I hope will make you happy, to let you know that you are important to me.”
“I don’t need these to know how much I mean to you.” Tears filled her eyes and she tried to sniff them back. “I can see it when you look at me.”
He groaned softly and held her tight. “I navsegda tebya lyublyu, Rya. Y menya ne bydet nicogoi’ drygoi. Ti derjish moya temnoye serdze, moyu gryaznyu dushu. Vsyo shto moyo, tvoyo.”
“What does that mean?”
Holding her gaze, he said softly, “It means, I would do anything, give anything to keep you in my life, to make you happy, to give you everything that I have.”
Swallowing hard, she let out a watery chuckle. “You know what? This really sucks.”
He turned her in his arms, looking down at her with such sorrow that her already hurting heart broke for him. “I am sorry I cannot be the man that you need, Rya. Even as my selfish heart urges me to keep you, I cannot.”
Lifting her face to his, she whispered, “Kiss me, then take me to bed and make love to me until the sun rises.”
He did, and as dawn breached the horizon, Rya fell into an exhausted sleep, cradled in Dimitri’s arms as he whispered against her neck that he loved her.
Chapter Fourteen
Dimitri stood out on the private patio off the bedroom and admired the desert sunrise. He felt alive, invigorated in a way he hadn’t experienced in years. Rya still slept inside and he made a rash phone call that would undoubtedly make Alex extremely pissed off, but he had to have one more day with Rya. The thought of leaving her right now was more than he could bear.
The phone rang twice before Alex picked up. “Where are you?”
“I am still in Arizona. I’ve decided to stay another day.”
“Dimitri,” Alex’s voice went low and deadly. “What are you doing?”
Anger filled him, but he tried to keep his emotions in check and his voice empty. “Nothing. I simply wish to spend another day here. It is beautiful; you would like it. Besides, once I return to Russia I won’t have time to relax. I just want time away from the bullshit.”
“Come back to the lodge.”
The way Alex said that, like it was an order, irritated Dimitri. “No. I will be back tomorrow.”
“Have you lost your mind? Do not fucking lie to me and tell me that you are staying to see the sights like some tourist. You are staying for that girl, that Rya.”
He clenched his phone. “How do you know her name?”
“Please, Dimitri, spare me. I came back early last night with Ilyena and a few of the submissives were quite put off that you disappeared with some American girl.”
Dimitri’s heart raced and he turned back to look at the still dimly lit bedroom where Rya slumbered among the sheets. “How bad is it?”
“It is not beyond repair, but you need to return to the lodge, with that girl, today.”
The sheets on the bed were lowered enough to show the curve of Rya’s lower back with her two diamond piercings in the dimples above her ass. He wanted to kiss those dimples, to put his thumbs over them while he fucked her. No, he needed just one more day with her to make their parting bearable, one more day to fill himself with her light. “We are staying another day.”
Alex swore long and loud while Dimitri stood there and imagined all the ways he would have his little Rya today. “Do you not care about her at all? Think about what this could mean for her safety.”
“Alex, if you could have one more day with Jessica, would you take it?”
“What?”
His brother’s pained whisper made Dimitri feel like a giant ass, but he pressed on. “I have…feelings for Rya, things I have never felt for a woman before. I need one more day with her, Alex.”
For a long time his brother was silent. “Do not get her killed, Dimitri. If you really feel something for her, walk away.”