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She nodded wordlessly.
Control, Gabriel.
“No.” My voice sounded harsh in my ears. “You’re tired. Go to bed.”
“Oh.” Her swallow was audible. “Okay. You sure? I mean, a deal is a deal…”
Was she relieved or disappointed? I couldn’t tell.
But I did know that if I stayed much longer, I was going to push her down on the couch and rip the remains of that snug excuse for a dress off her—and when I did, I wanted a woman who wasn’t about to keel over from exhaustion.
I rose to my feet, pulling her up with me. “Go.”
I turned her toward the bedroom, but couldn’t resist bringing my mouth to the turn of her neck. Inhaling her honeyed scent.
A tremor went over her—and then, very slowly, she tilted her head to the side. Exposing the tender skin beneath her jaw.
My breath punched in my lungs. My fangs lengthened.
In the thirteen months we were a couple, I’d never fed from her. At first, I hadn’t wanted to scare her off. For the first time in my life, I had a woman who treated me like just another guy, and I liked it. We had sex—I wasn’t a damned monk—but the summer we’d met, she’d only just turned twenty-one. She might have been of age, but she seemed so fucking young. I’d believed it was the honorable thing to do, a way to prove to Mila that she was more to me than just another human.
Now it seemed incredible that I’d never even taken a taste. Maybe if I had, she wouldn’t have run.
Darkness slithered through me. Moving her hair aside, I scraped my fangs over that soft, exposed spot, careful not to break the skin.
Her breath sped up, and her eyelids lowered. “Gabriel. Please...”
My throat hummed in a low, pleased growl. Iwouldhave her, writhing beneath me and begging. Taking anything I wanted to give her and pleading for more. Screaming my name until her voice broke.
But not tonight.
“Get some sleep.” I straightened up and smacked her round ass. “And Mila?” I feathered my lips over her nape.
“What?”
“Youwilltell me. Anything I want to know.” I turned and strolled to the door.
I deactivated the security and went out, shutting the door behind me. The security reactivated immediately after.
Mila’s outraged growl was audible through the closed door.
When I chuckled, Airi eyed me strangely.
My brows snapped together. “Guard her with your life,” I told the enforcer, and entered my suite.
9
Mila
Istared at the locked door, equal parts angry and aroused. For a few minutes, I’d forgotten everything but Gabriel. His scent. His hard body. His magical, knowing fingers.
My muscles had been lax, my pussy wet for him.
When he’d scraped his teeth down the side of my throat, I’d nearly come out of my skin.
And then he’d left me.
“Prick,” I growled. I don’t know who I was more upset with, him or myself. One thing I knew: I was damned if I’d tell this cold-eyed stranger why I’d left.
