Open Door Marriage by Naleighna Kai

firmly.
    Her head snapped to him, green eyes flashing red. “ Tori is the one you want to marry. Go make a life with her. Build a home. Have babies ...”
    “ I don ’ t love her like I love you, ” he said.
    “ And I can ’ t give you what she can, ” Alicia said just as pointedly. She gave him a tired half-smile and moved further away from him. “ Besides, there ’ s another variable we keep forgetting. You ’ re young enough to be my son. ”
    Dallas crossed the distance between them, and pulled her body to his. “ But old enough to please you in every way. ”
    Alicia blushed and shifted her focus to take in the cityscape images along the wall.
    Dallas brushed his lips across her earlobe. “ The sound of your voice, the feel of your skin, your taste, your touch. There ’ s a strength about you that ’ s sexy. Class, elegance, warmth—that ’ s just a part of who you are. I want to know more. I need to know more. ” He splayed a hand across her belly and pressed his growing erection into the swell of her buttocks. “ I couldn ’ t let you leave even if I wanted to. ”
    She locked gazes with him in the mirror. Her eyebrows drew together in a stern line.
    “ This cannot be a good idea, ” she finally whispered. “ Why get married at all if you ’ re going to sleep with other people? ”
    “ Tori said it best. Everyone gets a little of what they want. ”
    “ And a lot of what they don ’ t want, ” Alicia countered.
    “ It may end up that way, but while I ’ ll never let you go, I don ’ t want to leave Tori if this is what she really wants. She ’ s always been there for me when it counted. My mother ’ s illness, the court battles with all of those women, when I was taking a beating in the press. Every single time she ’ s had my back. And if I marry her, I will be able to have kids and take that issue off the table with us. ” He paused, turned her around and placed his hands on her shoulders. “ But the bottom line remains, it ’ s you that I want. That I need. I owe her. I love you. ”
    “ Do you hear how you sound? ” Alicia said. “ Like some spoiled man who wants it all. ”
    Dallas ’ chest heaved. “ Fine. Then, I choose you. ”
    Alicia shook her head as she fought back her tears. “ I can ’ t do that to Tori. ”
    Dallas eased toward her. “ Exactly. ” He lifted her chin. “ I don ’ t want to hurt Tori, either. So, I ’ m going to give her what she wants, the marriage, the fortune, the family. But I want to be happy, too. ” He stroked her hair, then took her hands. “ You make me happy. ”
    Alicia looked down at their hands joined together and shook her head.
    “ Tell me you don ’ t want me, ” Dallas said.
    He nipped her earlobe, causing her to first melt, then stiffen. She struggled to get out of his grasp and then, she put some distance between them. “ Dallas, we ’ re done, ” she said, holding her hands in front of her to keep him at bay. “ I ’ m not doing this. ”
    Dallas was on her in the time it took to blink. He pinned her to the wall, placing a bruising kiss on her lips. She steeled herself for what was coming at first, but was trembling with the need for him when he was done. Her face darkened with anger as she glared up at him, but her body had told him everything he needed to know. Silenced hummed for a few moments.
    “ We ’ re done? ” He was unable to conceal his satisfied smile. “ Are you sure about that? ”
    Alicia looked away, but his fingers on her chin turned her to face him again.
    “ Shall I show you how far from over we really are? ”
    Dallas gripped her waist to hold her in place as he lowered his free hand to her hemline and raised the dress to the top of her thighs. He journeyed upward into the silk panties. Color flushed her cheeks the moment his hand cupped her moistened mound, that telltale sign of her needs betraying her.
    He slipped in a single digit, dampening his fingers in her liquid heat. She gasped at