The Hockey Captain’s Unwanted Wife (Blair and Grayson) novel Chapter 233

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Chapter 233

-CHARLOTTE-

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?”

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“Then don’t be careless. It isn’t a big deal. Just sex, remember?”

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“Come here.”

I stood.