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The streets weren’t too busy at this hour on a weekday, but there were still plenty of people. Mostly they hung out in front of bars and clubs, dressed in clothes skimpy enough for the warm night. I’d experienced how different the scene on the weekends was, and I enjoyed it a lot more on nights like this one.
“What made you move here, instead of anywhere else in the world?”
I shrugged, tucking myself against his side. That was an answer I couldn’t give him without explaining why. I’d moved to this city for anonymity. People were less likely to remember one witch woman in a city where there were hundreds more like me. Getting people to forget about me was how I’d kept my existence a secret for this long.
“We grew up in a small town by the ocean. I wanted to see what big city life was like, where you didn’t know every single one of your neighbours by name and where they worked.” It was a half-truth.
“I don’t like big city life much,” Caspian said. “I’m always looking over my shoulder. The only reason I’m here is because this is where the work is.”
“Are you really not going to tell me anything about what you do for work?”
Turning us down another street, we were more than halfway to my apartment building. Maybe it wouldn’t hurt to let him walk me all the way home? That way, if something happened, someone might actually realize I was missing and have a starting point on where to look.
“Shan would kill me if I told you. It’s secretive.”
“That angel has a stick up his ass. What’s the harm in telling me what you do? It’s not like I’m asking what your mission is specifically.”
He chewed on his lip and lapsed into silence. When I stopped in front of my building a few minutes later, pulling out my keys, he blinked a few times, then spoke. “All I can tell you is that we work for a subsidiary of the Next Life Company. Is this where you live?”
Nodding, I pressed my fob against the door and waited for it to click unlocked. I was halfway through the door when he caught my arm. “Am I walking you up to your apartment?”
“I’m not telling you the unit number.”
“Then why are you going inside? I think I need a goodnight kiss and a proper goodbye.”
His lips puffed out in a pout and I clamped down on my powerful reaction to the motion. I wanted to kiss and nip at his plump lips until they were swollen from the attention and then kiss my way down his jawline to his neck. If I left marks on him, would Shan be angry? Or would he be turned on, kissing over the hickeys until they inevitably quickly faded? It all depended on if he was truly attracted to me or not.
“Fine, come with me.”
Dragging him through the empty lobby, I opened the door to the stairwell with my key fob. Instead of heading up, I went around the corner, hiding under the first set of stairs. This area was out of view of the cameras that monitored the lobby and building entrance, giving me plenty of privacy for our goodbye. Not that I was planning anything unfit for the public eye.
“Did you enjoy the date?” I asked, leaning back against the cool cement wall.
“You already know I did. Best date of my life.”
“The bar started pretty low.”
“This would have been the best date, regardless.”
I laughed, looking him over once more before I went upstairs. His crisp dress shirt now had wrinkles, a spot of barbecue sauce on one side. He’d rolled up the sleeves when we’d left the air-conditioned haven of the arcade, giving him a roguish look. The hair on top of his head was mussed and curling oddly in some places, but I could muss it a lot more if I gave into the temptation of my arousal.
“You’re checking me out like you want to take me up to your bedroom,” he said teasingly.
There was a bulge in his pants that told me he wasn’t entirely teasing.
“Maybe I do,” I said.
His eyes darkened to near black, heightening the temptation. Caspian was so sexy like that, with his eyes dark from arousal or anger. It didn’t matter which. “Please don’t tease me too much. I’m starving as it is,” he said, stepping a foot back from me. “I’ll have to drain Shan dry when I get back to our place.”
“I doubt he’ll mind.”
Cas moved a few more steps back until I reached out my hand and beckoned him toward me. The further he got away from me, the more desperately I wanted him. “Freya…” he warned, a whine to his voice.
When I beckoned again, he moved to me, close enough my breasts brushed against his chest and his bulge pressed into my groin. Part of me wanted to blame his incubus nature for how tempted I was by him, but it wasn’t that. It was him. His scent, how sexy he looked when aroused, the way we’d shared secrets of our childhoods.
Before I could stop myself, I reached my hand up to grab the back of his neck, pulling him in for a kiss.
Little sparks lit up my skin, passing between us like electricity. This kiss was even better than the first one we’d shared because this one wasn’t started in the desperation of a heat. I was fully in my right mind. And I wanted him.
