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Her face coloured in an instant. “You mean—”
“Your body in exchange for my protection. It’s a fair trade.”
Maddie jumped from her seat. “I—I need to go.”
“Did I offend you? Don’t tell me you’re a virgin and such a proposition is too outrageous for your delicate ears.”
Her lips thinned into a grim line. “You aren’t human.”
“I was one, a long time ago.”
“My aunt always told me to never make a deal with people like you.”
“Well, your aunt isn’t here to protect you anymore. I strongly suggest you consider my offer.”
Maddie gave him a wary look.
“Are you attached?” Jean-Luc had to ask. “Got a boyfriend? Husband?”
“It’s none of your business.”
“If you’re unattached, I don’t see a reason why you should turn down my offer. Think about it. Live without constant fear from those zacrahs and all I ask in exchange is your intimate companionship.”
“I need to go. Good bye Mr Jean-Luc.”
“Berthier. Jean-Luc Berthier. You need my name when you change your mind. Say it upon your lips and I’ll be there.”
“I’m sure I won’t need it.”
Jean-Luc felt his grin lurking around his mouth, but he tucked it away. “You can’t leave yet. You still owe me a payment.”
“Payment?”
“For saving you. A simple kiss would suffice.”
“I don’t think so,” she retorted hotly.
“Maddie, Maddie, Maddie. You know our kin never dispense free services, right?”
A scowl plastered over her pretty face. “Fine. If I kiss you, you’ll leave me alone?”
Jean-Luc purred. “On second thoughts, I’ll collect that at my leisure. I don’t want
to kiss an angry woman. When I kiss you, I want your complete surrender. With you under my body, where I’ll take my sweet time exploring and quenching my thirst on your sexy lips.”
Her face turned magenta. “Pervert.”
He couldn’t help laughing. “Has anybody told you, you look so cute when you’re angry?”
Chapter Two
Maddie had felt jumpy ever since she’d come home from her botched interview. She half expected Jean-Luc to barge into her apartment when she least expected it.
He didn’t scare her.
No, not at all.
She dreaded the fact that that she owed him something. She’d never kissed a bounty hunter from Hell and it unnerved her.
