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Chapter 233
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I tried to stay calm.
It was not working.
Luca looked at me like the lingerie was a problem he could solve with his hands and a rule he was trying not to break.
I wanted him.
Badly.
He was not making the first move.
If I said nothing, he would go back to his room and we would keep living in the almost. Best friends with a secret neither of us would name. A trophy on the table. Ice cream melting. His parents‘ voices still stuck in the walls.
He had said I was his life in front of his parents.
I had not been able to forget it.
My heart had overflowed.
Then he had sanded it down to best friend. Like nothing would ever change that. Like he had reached for more and shoved it back into the safest box he owned.
I was confused.
Tonight I was also done waiting.
“Luca?” I whispered.
I let him see it. How much I wanted him. Not a performance. Just me on a couch with ice cream and too little fabric and a question I had been carrying since the other night.
He was still in the doorway.
Still staring.
Still pretending he was going to sleep.
“Mmm?”
“Why does it just have to be one night?” I asked. “Why can’t we make a deal?”
He stiffened. “A deal?”
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I nodded. My pulse went wild. “We can have sex whenever we both want. But I don’t want to share the person I’m sleeping with. While we’re under the deal, you can’t sleep with anyone else.”
I did not want him with anyone else, not just while we were sleeping together. I was not brave enough to say it
yet.
He did not move for a few seconds.
The movie kept talking to nobody.
Then he swallowed hard.
I watched his throat work. I watched his hands curl at his sides like he did not trust them.
He took one step into the room.
Not close enough.
Close enough that I had to stop breathing properly.
“I’ll agree if you sleep with only me.” His voice was rough. “No flirting with other men either. You’re strictly mine during this time.”
My heart skipped a beat.
His?
Only his?
I liked the sound of that too much.
Heat went through me so fast I almost dropped the pint.
“That’s the point,” I said. “Just us. While we do whatever this is.”
“Charlotte.”
He shut his eyes.
Opened them.
Looked at the ice cream like it had betrayed him, then at the lace, then at my
Another step.
I set the pint down because my hands were not steady anymore.
“Whenever we both want,” he repeated.
“Yes. Whenever we want it.”
mouth.
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“And no one else.”
“Yes.”
He stopped in front of the couch.
I had to tip my head back.
I could smell him.
“If you catch feelings-”
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“If you catch feelings,” I cut in, because I was already past that line, “we talk. We don’t disappear on each other or act weird about it.”
His jaw worked.
“No disappearing,” he said.
“No pretending it didn’t happen.” I murmured.
“No Nico.”
I blinked. “That is very specific.”
“I don’t care. No Nico. No random drivers. No one who looks at you in a bar while I’m standing there losing my mind.”
“Fine. No Valentina. No girls your mother sends. No one you used to forget by morning.”
Something dark and pleased moved through his face.
“Done.”
Was it truly that easy for him to agree to no other women?
He still did not touch me.
That was the worst part.
We were negotiating sex like a contract while my whole body remembered him inside me.
“How often?” I asked, because if I did not keep talking I was going to grab him.
“Whenever I want you.”
“Whenever we want.”
His mouth tipped, not quite a smile. “You think you’re going to want it less than I do?”
“I think you’re going to pretend you have control and then look at me like this.”
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He looked at me then.
Hungry.
Frustrated.
“And if one of us wants to stop?” he asked.
“Then we stop. We don’t punish each other for it.”
“And we stay friends.”
“Yes,” I said, even though the word felt too small now. “That’s the deal.”
He crossed the last of the space.
Not all the way.
Enough that my knees brushed his legs.
Enough that I felt the heat of him.
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“I meant what I said downstairs,” he said. Quiet. “You come first. That does not mean I get to be careless with you.”
I come first? He’d said that?
“Then don’t be careless. It isn’t a big deal. Just sex, remember?”
The lie tasted sweet.
Necessary in the moment.
His eyes dropped to my mouth.
Then to the drop of ice cream that had dried on my throat.
Then lower, to the lace.
He still did not kiss me.
His hand lifted, hovered at my waist, and finally landed there like he had been thinking about that exact place for hours.
I felt it everywhere.
“Say it again,” he said.
“Sex when we both want it. No one else.” My voice shook. “You can have me however you want, whenever you
want.”
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Something in his face cracked.
“Come here.”
My heart started to race.
Why did he have to say it like that?
I stood.
Lace. Bare legs. Ice cream still on my mouth.
Heart pounding.
We were almost chest to chest.
He did not kiss me yet.
He looked.
Slow.
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From my eyes to my mouth to the straps I had put on because I was tired of being the only one burning.
Then his other hand found my waist too.
Both of them.
Firm.
Claiming.
“Deal,” he said against my temple. His breath hit my skin. “You only sleep with me. I only sleep with you. I can have you whenever I want. Wherever I want. In every position I want. How rough or soft I want to be with your pussy. Full permission.”
My breath hitched.
“Deal.”
His mouth finally found mine.
A real kiss.
Slow first.
Then not.
We both groaned like we had been dying for this.
The suite disappeared. The crash disappeared. His parents disappeared. The stupid one night rule went with
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He kissed me like he had been thinking about it since he said goodnight. Like staying in the doorway had been torture. Like the lingerie and ice cream had been a dare he was done losing.
I fisted his shirt.
He made a sound into my mouth and pulled me closer until there was no space left to negotiate.
He lifted me like he could not wait to be inside me.
I wrapped my legs around him because I had been waiting since that night he fucked me.
“Whenever we both want,” he muttered into my throat, already kissing down to the lace. “Fuck. I like this new.
rule.”
“Then use it,” I whispered.
He did.
He carried me toward the bedroom without putting me down, mouth on my neck, hands under the lace, the deal still warm between us and already looking nothing like just sex.
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Dex works to elevate each story with clean writing, emotional balance, and thoughtful flow for readers.