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But what about? I can protect myself—or, at least, I think I can. Sure, Keon is bigger, stronger, and a telepath, but I’ve got this, right?
“I’ll be fine,” I say.
And then he looks disappointed.
But Keon is pulling me through the curtains, into what looks like a much sleeker backstage area on Earth. Keon drags me down the corridor, then into a bathroom, where he slams the door shut behind him. I round on him, starting to ask what’s going on—
Then he shoves me against the wall and silences me with a kiss.
His hands are everywhere, and I don’t try to stop him—because I don’t want to. A little bit of static goes with him everywhere he touches, and I throw my head back as he kisses up and down my throat. It’s like he’s exploring every inch of me, his hands sliding up my inner thighs, then squeezing my breasts as he kisses my neck.
“Ah…” he murmurs. “Right there, huh?”
“Yes,” I breathe as he flicks my nipple. “Yes!”
He’s not shy about what he wants now; Keon reaches for my dress and yanks it down, tonguing around my left nipple ring. I feel a flash of anxiety that he might dislodge my tracker, but I remember Corvus saying that it couldn’t be sucked off—way to go for thinking of it, past Penn. His tongue is wet and tickling, tiny crackles of energy jolting through my whole body.
“What did you want to—” I start, trying to remember to get back to business.
“Shh,” he purrs against my breast. “Trust me.”
Another jolt of electricity goes through me, lancing and sharp. I hook my leg up around Keon’s hip and grind against him to fend off the pain, the delicious dissonance of pleasure in my core and pain at my breast driving me crazy…
And then it goes numb.
I only have one strange, off-kilter second to look down at Keon in confusion before he pulls away from my breast, sticking out his tongue.
Sitting on top of it is one of my favorite nipple rings.
The one with the tracker.
Keon pulls it from his tongue and holds it delicately, meeting my eyes. I glance down and realize he must have been messing with it this whole time, the removal from my breast clean. “What the—” I start, but Keon puts a finger to his lips with his other hand.
“Shh,” he repeats, then mouths his next words in silence.He’s listening.
Holy shit.
He’s trying to tell me that the tracker is a listening device.
I frown in confusion, shaking my head, but saying nothing. Corvus walked me through all the equipment during my debrief—he didn’t say anything about there being a listening device in the tracker. If he had, I would have found a way around it, but now…
What else isn’t Corvus telling me?
Let’s go, Keon mouths at me, throwing his thumb over his shoulder.
Fuck me.
This man could kill me; I know this. He’s Gifted, he’s got who knows how many underlings working for him. He could be about to murder me, take me hostage, steal me away to wherever they took Layla…
But that’s the thing, isn’t it?
I’m here forLayla.
I nod, licking my lips.
And I go with him.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
