"Lucian, would you hurry up!" I groaned from in front of the mirror, attempting to push a pearl earring through my ear. "I'm hardly the one we're waiting on, mia cara," he called from the bedroom. I heard his steps come closer, eventually he was standing at the doorway. His dark eyes perused me in my navy blue dress. My whole body still ignites in sparks when he looks at me like that, like I'm the best thing he's ever seen. A dark smirk slipped onto his lips as he stepped closer to me. "All I have to do is put in my earrings, you're the one not even dressed yet!" I rolled my eyes playfully, slipping the other earring into my opposite ear and putting the back on. I turned to fully face him, which he decided to take to his advantage. In a moment he had me pulled up against him, his lips

