The Billionaire's Match Is Three Percent novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: The Night Before

His bedroom is the size of my whole apartment and has nothing in it.

A bed, a nightstand, a lamp, a wall of black glass, and the whole city lying behind it.

It was past midnight.

We had eaten eggs at his counter, six between us, and I had left the pan in the sink on purpose.

He had looked at it, and then at me, and left it.

Now I stood at the foot of his bed in his gray t-shirt, and he stood in front of me in his trousers.

"Tomorrow," he said.

"Don't."

"I'm only saying the word."

"Say another one."

"Tonight."

"That's better."

He stepped close and put his hands on my shoulders.

He had a way of doing that, lightly.

His voice dropped.

"Take off the shirt."

I laughed.

I couldn't help it.

It was his voice from the thirty-first floor, the one that gave orders to a whole company.

It came out low and smooth, and utterly certain.

"What?" he said.

"Nothing. Say it again."

"Take off the shirt, Daria."

"Say it like you mean it."

His eyes narrowed.

"Take it off," said Winston, "now."

A shiver went right down my spine and landed between my legs.

I pulled the t-shirt over my head and dropped it.

I stood there in nothing but my glasses.

"Glasses on," he said. "I want you to see me."

"Yes, sir."

He closed his eyes for a moment, as if I had hit him.

"Don't say that unless you mean it."

"I might mean it."

"Get on the bed."

I climbed up on the huge white bed and knelt in the middle of it.

He undressed in front of me, and for once he did it slowly, on purpose, folding nothing.

Shirt, belt, trousers on the floor.

He stood naked at the edge of the mattress, hard and flushed, with his hands loose at his sides.

"On your side," he said. "Facing the window."

I lay down.

The city was spread out across the glass in front of me, and I could see myself in it, small and pale.

The mattress dipped behind me.

He lay down against my back, his chest to my spine and his thighs under mine.

His arm came over my waist and pulled me flush against him.

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