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“Do what?”
“Sound so…calm.Controlled.”While her whole body was still in overdrive.“And you changed your expression in a blink.You’re staring at me like…” Her words trailed away.
He advanced on her.Slow, determined steps.“I’m trying not to scare you.”
“You’re doing the opposite job of it.Seeing you close downeverythingthat fast unnerved the hell out of me.”Total truth.Because she was also trying really hard not to lie to him again.There had been enough lies.
“I didn’t close down.”He stopped right in front of her.As she stared up into his eyes, she saw the heat blazing in the darkness.“I jerked back on my control.Didn’t want to look like a man possessed.A man who would doanythingto have his fingers dipping inside of you again.A man who would rip apart the world if it meant he got to fuckyouagain.”
Her head shook.
His mask fell away.The lust and need and stark hunger were clear to see once more.So was the possessive gleam in his eyes.Primal.He looked at her as if…as if…
I’m his.
“Does this work better?”he rumbled.“Me looking at you like you’re the only thing that matters?The only thing I want?You are.Be clear on that.I want you so much I would have fucked you and let the world burn down around us.”
Not true.He’d answered the phone—
But he hadn’t stopped touching her.He’d kept his hand stroking her and had nearly made her come for him while he’d been taking the call.
“I can fuck you without emotion, Lark.If that’s what you want, I can make it happen.As you just saw, I can close it all down.”
“But…but you said that was a mask.”And just because you masked something, it didn’t mean you didn’tfeel.
“I can make the sex so good you won’t care if it’s a mask or not.”
She knew he wasn’t just bragging.Sex with him was so incredible that she lost track of everything but the pleasure she felt with him.“We should go.”Breathy.That was how she sounded.Breathy and uncertain.“If Nate Quest is at that hotel, if you think he’s some kind of lead to follow, we should go.”She vividly remembered Nate Quest.He’d been engaged to the first victim.In interviews on the news, he’d looked…broken.
“I’m not in official FBI capacity, remember?Nate doesn’t have to talk with me.That’s why I told Jase to have a run at him first.But, yeah, we’ll be going.Because I want to see how he reacts to you.”
She blinked.“What?”
His hand raked through his thick hair.“You get that it’s possible the person who came after you last night just came afteryou?As in, you were his one and only target?That he isn’t the same man who killed those other three women?”
She didn’t speak.Yes, I get that.But she also knew…It is possible he is the same man who hurt those other women.The Bridal Killer was out there.“What did you learn from my brother?”Oliver hadn’t said he believed in her brother’s innocence.Despite her hope that he’d rush back and suddenly be convinced Lane didn’t belong in a cell.
“You should put on your boots.We need to go.”
She didn’t move.
“Unless you want to fuck,” he added, voice raw.“Because we can do that right here and right now.I can sit you on the desk and you’ll be coming for me within two minutes.”
“You’re such a bastard.”She spun and marched away.A double-time march.
“I know.”Soft.His words drifted after her.“But what I don’t know…is why you kissed me.”
Lark stilled.“I told you why already.”She didn’t look back at him.
“Because you hate me, but still want me?”
Nothing seemed to kill the desire she felt for him.Maybe nothing could kill it.Did that mean something was wrong with them?Or that something was just wrong with her?“It’s not natural.I shouldn’t want you.It should have ended long ago.”The dark need that would whisper through her.The desire that would even have her touching herself late at night as she thought of him.
“What do you want us to do?Fuck until we get each other out of our systems?”
Was that even a possibility?Could you fuck someone out of your life?“What I want…” She inhaled.“I want to catch a killer.”With that, Lark left him.
She didn’t look back but…
