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Her brows drew together.
“I was born and raised and trained to be an assassin. Like I was trained to be Lily’s. I protected her because I was told to. Loved her because I was told to.”
“You can’t tell me you didn’t love her for you. I saw you after she left. You have a fucking list because of her, Kieran.”
“I did. I do. But I was in love with her because that was my assignment. Then I started making decisions for myself . . . that’s when I lost her. Now it wouldn’t matter if she came back. There’s nothing left of us.”
Jessica’s eyes were wide with surprise as she watched me talk. “Then why”—her head shook in disbelief—“why do you have a list? Why are you letting these people control your life? Why have you let them destroy it?”
I opened my mouth to remind her that Lily had left. That they’d taken her or been the reason she’d wanted to leave me. But those words suddenly didn’t mean what they used to.
“Because they ended your assignment. Because you feel lost without another one,” Jessica said when I didn’t respond, understanding lacing her words. “I know the feeling.”
She couldn’t. She couldn’t know what it felt like to fail your life’s mission.
She leaned forward, her mouth a breath away. “But what if you’re not lost?” Her eyes lifted to study mine. “What if I’m not?”
I don’t remember who closed the distance. But her mouth was on mine, the kiss so similar to the nights before.
Light. Teasing. A whisper of her lips against mine. And I needed more.
Without a word, she straddled my lap again. Without prompting from me, she turned so her back was pressed to my chest, and she was sitting on my hardening dick.
Her hands raced down my arms and gripped at my fingers as the kiss turned rough and pleading.
I pulled back far enough to look into her raven eyes, searching them for any hint of the taunting seductress that I’d been met with so many times already.
But it was just her.
I crushed my mouth to hers, swallowing her moan and nearly coming unhinged when she rocked against me.
Releasing one of her hands, I grabbed her hair and pulled her head back to rest on my shoulder. I made a slow line of soft bites down her neck, groaning and biting a little too hard when she ground her ass against me.
I was acutely aware of where we were.
Of the amount of people.
But I was seconds away from losing my mind in a way I never had.
No monster.
No darkness.
Just everything that was this chaotic girl.
And I was only kissing her.
But I wanted her.
Needed her.
Now.
I moved my mouth to her ear and growled, “We’re leaving.”
I didn’t give her a chance to speak. I stood with her still in one of my arms and waited to make sure she was steady on her feet before I hurried us through the crowd to the doors.
I never once looked back at the bar.
