King of Faces: Part Two (special preview)

I bite my lip as he toys with my chest. “I think I know.”

Ludovico looks up at me with lonesome eyes and touches my cheek. “I have considered just as equally stupid things. I have wanted to run across the gardens and bang on your door and have you take me in the barn loft again.”

“You should see it after the renovations,” I chuckle. “It’s nice and roomy up there. Lots of soft, fresh new hay.” I tilt his chin up, pressing kisses all over his face. “We could get lost up there.”

“Oh,” Ludovico shivers. “Stop tormenting me! Do you know how hard it is to not drag you down into the mud right now?”

I laugh and snuggle my cheek to his. “It feels good just talking to you.”

“I know.” He puts an arm over my back and rubs between my shoulders. “I have missed my parents and I love having them and my sister home. But it feels incomplete when you are not a part of my day as well.”

I kiss him, not out of lust, but out of pure love for him. He presses his palms against my chest, forcing himself away.

“You’re far too good at that.” He catches his breath. “Mother brought me home some new pajamas. I would like you to see me in them.”

“Tell me about them,” I whisper.

Ludovico giggles. “One set is pink, I think it will be your favorite. The fabric is so soft and it includes a matching harness.”

“What is your mother doing picking you out such provocative underwear?” I am trying not to imagine him laying bare in a pink harness with straps pulled down on his supple body. I can’t allow myself to see that, no matter what the cost.

“A designer I fancy was working in the city of Glamour my parents were visiting. I told Mother to pick me up her newest collection.” Ludovico’s lips possess a sinister smirk. “There’s one thing in them I think will suit you as well.”

I shiver and hug him extra tight. “Please, Death, come for me now.”

“Death will come for anybody,” Ludovico whispers into my ear. “I only come for you.”

I set Ludovico down away from me and I stand up. “You’re frustrating me!” I snarl down at him.

Ludovico’s lascivious face gazes at me knowingly. He then opens up his shirt, showing me the pink straps across his chest and shoulders. “If we go somewhere private, right this instant, I’ll show you everything.”