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No sense lying. “Well, Night Watch was after me, so I figured the FBI was, too. Hell, I figured the FBI was probably the one who was paying your fees.” So why was she there? With him?
“I don’t want to hear any lies,” he told her.
But she was good at lying.
“Why were you in Dusk?”
Jana blinked. Okay, she hadn’t been expecting that question. “Why were you there?” Convenient, too convenient, and—Jana jerked up, sending the covers sliding off her body. “You followed me.” Understanding was bitter as her memory flooded totally back.
He didn’t move. “Did you really think the sex would distract me so much that you could just walk away?”
She took the slap and realized that Zane had taken off her shirt and her jeans. “Where are my clothes?”
“Is that a technique you use a lot?” Icy words. “You seduce your way out of trouble?”
Jana swallowed. “I didn’t have sex with you as part of some master scheme.” She jumped from the bed and started searching the motel room. The obviously cheap motel room. She’d spent her share of nights in plenty of rooms just like this one.
“Then why did you?” Nearly a growl as some heat broke through the ice.
She found her jeans and turned back to face him. “Because I wanted you.” For once, she’d just taken what she wanted. She’d known it wouldn’t last. “I knew we didn’t have any future.” Future—what was that? “I wanted you, wanted pleasure—so I took both.”
His green eyes glittered. “How many men have heard that line?”
She threw her jeans at him.
The guy moved then—fast. He lunged across the room. His hands locked around her upper arms, and he yanked her close. “I didn’t turn you over, Jana. The FBI wanted you. They just wanted me to walk away, but I didn’t turn you over.”
She stared up at him. “Why?”
“Because I’m a fucking idiot.” His breath expelled in a rush. “Because when that woman fired on you, I was ready to rip her apart.” His head lowered toward hers. “Because when you fell, I lost control.”
A demon losing control? Never a good?—
“Because once wasn’t enough for me.”
Her heart slammed into her ribs.
“I want you, I want the pleasure, and I’m damn well not done with you yet.”
Not done with her? Yeah, that was classy. That was?—
“You want me,” Zane said.
She’d just said as much.
“I’m fucking on fire for you.”
Jana knew a few things about fire.
“If this isn’t what you want, then say no, and say it fast.” His hold gentled. Stroked instead of captured. “But I’ve spent the last five hours watching you, worrying that you wouldn’t wake up?—”
“I’m fine.” It wasn’t the first time she’d had that particular drug of choice fired on her. Humans woke up with no ill effects. Shifters had a bitch of a headache and demons—don’t want to go there.
“You’re not getting away from me,” he told her, “not until I know what’s happening.”
Right then… “I don’t want to go anywhere.” And when she wanted to leave, she would. The demon wouldn’t stop her. No one would stop her.
He kissed her. She expected a hard kiss. A blaze of passion and anger and fire. Instead, she got gentleness.
