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Luna blinks up at me, her face full of sleep and she’s my goodnight moon, causing my lips to involuntarily curl. “Where are you going?” she murmurs, rubbing her eyes. “It’s in the middle of the night.” Her body draws me in, the skin glittering and everything about her sings and decoys as I’m completely powerless to her, and if I hadn’t had that steel will ingrained in me since childhood then I never would’ve been able to do my job.
But she’s going to have to get used to this. I mostly work during the night, sometimes during the day, weekends, and holidays but I’m figuring some of it will change because now I have somebody else to think of.
“I got work to do, but I’ll be here by morning,” I reply and she sits up, pulling the sheet with her. My hands itch from how badly I want to yank the sheet away from her and she yawns. “You go back to sleep and when you wake up again, I’ll be right here with you.”
Her slim shoulders rise and fall. “But I want you with me now. This is a new, strange house to me, Derex and I’d prefer it if you stayed.”
Fuck, I can’t just call the boss and tell him I’m not coming. I have someone to murder and we don’t take that stuff lightly and yet my heart clenches at the sight of Luna’s needy face. I get it. She needs someone to hold on to and I cup her cheeks in my hands.
“Sometimes we just have to compromise.” I thumb her lip. “I’ll give you all my love and devotion when I come back and think of you while I’m gone.”
“Alright,” she agrees, slightly comforted now, “but I’m going to miss you so much.” She grabs my pillow, hugs it to her chest and puts her face in it and my eyes roll back in my head. Fuck, I’d never thought I’d see a woman do something like that for me, didn’t think I was the type who could get those kinds of girls. I always thought if I ever found a female I wanted, she’d be so appalled she’d run the other way and tell me to never contact her again or she’d call the cops.
Yet, here I have an angel acting as if she will shatter if I’m not holding her.
“I’m going to miss you too,” I rasp, my voice so hoarse and I feel like I have barb wire around my heart. It’s there to keep everything else away because it belongs to Luna now. “But I can think of something that’ll help.”
Her jaw slacks and she moans when I hook my fingers in her thong, pulling it down her slender legs and she sucks on her fingers, looking up at me as if I’m being offensive. “Don’t you know it’s rude to steal an innocent girl’s thong like that?” she pants.
Smirking, I put it in my pocket and shake my head. “I want nothing touching you between your legs until I’m home. No friction and no contact with what’s mine until I’m back, only I get to take care of it.”
“I know.” She throws me an insolent look, rolling over to her belly and the sight of her like this just made everything ten times worse. I guess the best thing is to just rip it off, like a Band-Aid and I put on my coat before lowering my face and giving her a kiss on the mouth. “Derex,” she whispers and I raise my brows in question. “Don’t forget your gun.”
Inwardly, I tense but I don’t show her that. “I won’t. Got it right here.”
“Only use it if necessary,” she smiles and I wince, thinking we probably have very different opinions on what’s necessary. I pull away but stop when she puts a hand on my arm. “What did you mean when you said I soften you?”
She heard me then...great. Letting out a sigh, I rasp, “That you make me feel like a good man.”
Her face flushes and her lashes flutter. “You don’t need me for that.” A smile plays with her lips. “You’re a good man with or without me.”
Oh...but that’s where she’s wrong.
****
I’ve never much looked forward to daylight or going home but there’s something special about walking down my street and seeing Luna sitting at my kitchen table, eating breakfast under my roof. Grinning at this new situation, I walk inside and call for her.
First thing I hear is a yelp and the sound of a chair toppling and then Luna comes at me like a whirlwind, before throwing herself into my arms. “I never thought you’d come home,” she breathes. “I was so worried, cried and tried calling you but your phone was on mute and I tried to tell myself to relax, to not get all dramatic but...”
“You missed me that much did you?” I groan and pull her to me, so she can feel my body’s immediate arousal and her eyes dash. “Get naked and lay on the couch and I’ll show you just how much I’ve missed you back.”
Her eyes dart, cheeks tinting and she murmurs, “It’s not that I just missed you.” She clutches and clings to me. “I was genuinely worried.” When I frown in surprise, she takes my hand and drags me into the kitchen, pointing at a newspaper on the table. “Look, there’s that guy John, you spoke to when we were on the subway.”
Blood drains from my face as I look at the paper. Fuck! This never should have become public knowledge. Hertz was supposed to take care of him discreetly and fury brims in me, causing me to clench my fists when I feel my pulse speed up.
Luna watches me curiously. “You seem tense, Derex,” she reminds me before exhaling. “See, now why I was worried? I thought whoever exterminated John would come after you too.”
Gritting my jaw, I slowly nod. “You’re kind for being concerned but you need to know that I can always take care of myself. No matter what.”
She breathes out, plopping down on her chair and she’s all better now but I’m pissed she found out about the murder. And even if I’ve calmed her down, there’s no denying that her eyes are a little more careful now when landing on me.
“Brought you pastries,” I murmur, “with icing sugar and I got you some strawberry lemonade too.”
Squealing, she digs in, letting out diverting moans and groans while I try focusing on reading the article. I’m gonna kill Hertz for this. He’s fucking responsible for making Luna look at me with anything else but trust and I realize I should’ve played it up, should’ve acted appalled or horrified when she showed me the article.
Instead, I acted like a damn machine.
Fuck!
