Anika's POV
He really expected me to walk after that?
My legs felt like warm pudding. My brain? A bowl of scrambled eggs. And my mate—my unfairly gorgeous, impossible, self-satisfied demigod of a mate—was now dragging me toward the hallway like he hadn’t just kissed the breath out of my lungs.
I cleared my throat, trying to recover some dignity. “You know, Zeph… kissing me like that before a date is cheating.”
He glanced back, eyes dancing. “You started it.”
“I did not—”
“You did.” He squeezed my hand. “You tugged me down and kissed me first.”
I opened my mouth.
Closed it.
Damn him.
Thethys huffed.
"You did start it. And we should’ve kept going. Three minutes more and he would’ve taken us to bed."
I internally shoved her aside. "Not helping."
We finally stepped outside, and th
