Page 18 of Love After Never


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All her long dark hair just begs for me to wrap it around my fist while I work her sweet little pussy. Her almond-shaped eyes, the golden dusky skin speaking to her native heritage…and that’s not her. That’s just the face. Just the facade.

The fire in her eyes she uses to cover up the dead places inside of her…it’s something I understand.

Fuck.

She needs someone like me in the club with her and she has no idea how badly. Needs someone to show her exactly how delicious it can be to let go when you’re with someone who knows what he’s doing.

I cast one final look back at the Ford and the unconscious cop in the driver’s seat, her head lolling to the side and her eyes closed, and force myself to start walking in the opposite direction.

Cozying up to a detective with daddy issues is the last thing I need. Unless I’m ready to die.

No one will bother her here, I hope.

She should be safe until she wakes up with a massive headache.

I grab the cell from my pocket and hit redial on my last missed call.

“Where the fuck were you?” the person on the other end asks after two rings. His voice has a gravelly timbre. “Younevermiss an appointment. Care to explain?”

“Losing a tail,” I respond.

The weight of the day presses down on me and erupts as a sudden blinding headache. Pushing against my temple does nothing to alleviate the pressure.

“Who is it? Someone who needs to die?” my boss asks.

I shake my head although he can’t see the movement.

“Tell me and I can eliminate the threat. It must be bad if it’s taken you this long to accomplish.”

“I took care of it,” I assure him. The first lie I’ve ever told Broderick.

Why?

Why do it for her?Layla.

It’s the way she shivered when I choked her, not out of fear but out of desire so thick I practically smelled it on her. How I ran my knife over her and her skin heated. Not from fear, not like the club’s little girls, but from twisted passion.

She has no idea what her body is capable of. And it intrigues a dark corner of me to want to introduce the stick-up-her-ass detective to the darker side of lust, so much further than she’s already pushed herself.

What will she do, what will she be, with the right kind of encouragement? With a man who knows exactly where to touch to coax it out of her?

Which means I need to be careful around her.

I don’t fucking want to be, though.

I want to see what she’ll do if I let my control slip, even just a little, how she might weather the storm.

Those pretty pink lips of hers always seem to demand a punishing kiss, just as the rich annoyance in her chocolaty eyes makes me want to drag her down into the abyss with me and ruin her.

I want to see if I can coax out all her filthiest desires. The ones she refuses to admit even to herself.

“Just get your ass up here. You’re already late.” Broderick snaps out the final demand before hanging up.

There’s no way I’m willing to test the big boss’s patience.

I knew what I was getting into when I signed my life away to the devil himself.

I stalk the streets, needing the fresh air even with the rain. Winding through alleys and several blocks as I always do on my way to HQ. The humidity has risen in the wake of the rain and the thick air forces its way into my lungs. The chill I expected earlier, from the bite in the wind, has shifted into muggy heat.

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