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With a knowing look, she dropped the affront to smile. Tuck had said that Kadie acted pissed when he hacked her accounts, but she secretly wanted him to do it. Zara now got what he meant. It was sort of nice that Brodie was interested enough in her life to want to pry into what was going on. And she had nothing to hide from him, so he could read her messages as much as he wanted, just so long as she got to read his in return.
“Just watching your tail, baby,” he said, leaning down to kiss her shoulder. “Do you think he wants to take out Sikorski, or is it Leatt he’s planning on betraying? We’ll have to keep an eye on this one. The shit will hit the fan, someone’s getting a dose of that poison, either his partner or his banker.”
They would have to watch themselves, too, despite being lucky enough to have others looking out for them. Being part of a group gave them protection that the others wouldn’t have. She hadn’t seen Sikorski herself today, but she’d met him before. He traveled with others, bodyguards probably paid to take the bullet if one was shot his way. But honor among thieves tended to depend on who could offer the best benefits. Anyone could be working inside. She knew from experience that trusting an outsider with your secrets or your life could be the last mistake a person made.
“What do you think about Leatt?” she asked because she still couldn’t understand why he was allied with Kahlil.
“I don’t trust him. I never did,” he said. That could’ve had something to do with her sort of faux dating Leatt for a while. “But Leatt’s more of a follower than a leader. He didn’t come up with the plan, whatever the plan is. That might make him expendable. Psychopaths tend not to carry dead weight, and that’s what he’ll be to Sikorski. What does he have to offer that Sikorski might need?”
“We’d have said Kahlil was a follower given his history, and it turns out that losing his job is a helluva incentive.”
“He’s angry,” he said. “We can’t be sure of how many people he’s working with. Recording that message about eliminating the threat, that was for someone.”
“Leatt?”
He tilted his head, and his squint made her think he disagreed. “Maybe. But what bonds these guys? It’s a good idea to have backup, but far as we can tell there’s no blood or sentimental relationship. Kahlil could have a brother or family member in the background. Maybe not. But we’ve got to be ready for anything. I don’t want any surprises this time. Maybe we should keep running the stakeout, see who else shows up.” Drawing in a long breath, he ran his hand up to the back of his head and gripped her neck in the other. “Good thing I got some sleep today. It’s gonna be another long night.”
“I’ll pack up some of this food and we can—”
“You’re staying here tonight,” he said, picking up a tendril of her hair. “I have to focus, and having you there is too much of a temptation.”
“You’re not going alone,” she said, recalling how she’d felt that morning when he’d raced after Kahlil and that was during daylight. “You should always have backup. You just said so right there.”
“Tuck’s been on watch all day. I’m not asking him to stay there another night. That shitty place hurts a guy’s soul, trust me.”
“I’m not talking about Tuck, I’m talking about me. If I say no sex then we won’t have sex. Taxicab, there you go, now you’re not allowed to touch me.”
Her smile was meant to portray her confidence, but when he leaned back to eye her chest and opened his hands on her thighs to slide them up under her skirt, her resolve wavered. It grew weaker when his eyes narrowed, and he dipped down to rub the bruise on her neck with his stubble.
He parted his lips and the inhale of breath against her skin made her eyes close. She grew weak when he kissed her once. Tracing his lips higher, he kissed her again on the underside of her jaw and moved over to kiss her chin. With excruciating pace, he let his lips sink onto hers.
She opened her hands on his chest and lessened the circle of her legs around his hips enough that she could lock her ankles together behind him. Opening her mouth, she expected his tongue, instead he withdrew and brushed his lips over her cheekbone to the shell of her ear.
“I know how to make you beg for me, pretty baby. You blink those big brown eyes and get me hard, rubbing my fucktoy all over me, those hot tits and your smackable ass. You push my property, that body, into mine and you’ll make me want you. I can’t be close to your tight pussy without wanting it. I don’t even have to touch you, I know how to get you so wet you’ll be soaking through your panties. You’ll be dripping, begging me to fuck you, no safe word can stop you from wanting me. When you want it, pretty baby, you’ll get it from me, hard and fast and any other damn way I give it.”
Her dry lips came together and she swallowed. He was right, her insides were alive, her blood simmering to a boil. She wanted him. Her man. She wanted him now. Her breasts were so heavy they hurt. The rasp of material on her nipples made them burn, and the zing of torturous want shimmied from her clit to her brain, blanking all thoughts but one.
“I want you now,” she gasped and grabbed his belt, but he backed away out of her reach, leaving her panting.
He laughed, a deep, depraved chuckle that tormented her because it punctuated his power over her. “And that’s why you’re not coming with me,” he said, reaching over to skim her chin with a fingertip.
She didn’t want him to be right because she didn’t want him working alone. With a sigh, she surrendered to his wisdom. Going to their stakeout to back him up would only be useful if they both kept their mind on the job. When there was imminent danger, that was no problem. But alone in a bedroom all night, watching a man who’d probably sleep and only get up to pee, the temptation to take the risk would be too great.
Acknowledging that truth didn’t alleviate the weakness in her arms and the giddiness that was making it difficult for her to focus. The tingling need moistened her center in readiness for him, and she couldn’t be left hanging all night.
“Ok,” she said. “How about a webcam then?”
One corner of his lips curved high. “Nice,” he said in approval. “Then I can tease you all night long.”
“Without touching me.” Which was the point because he needed to keep his wits about him and his attention on Kahlil. Still, that solution didn’t scratch the itch of need that dampened her underwear just like he said his seduction would. “Ok… but you have to fuck me now… quick, I swear.”
Begging for his acquiesce, she worried he might refuse her. But he came back over and planted a hand on the counter on each side of her, forcing her to lean back. “No time for that,” he said. “I won’t be able to shower over there if I’m alone, and if I go over there reeking of you and sex… you’ll be the distraction I’m trying to fucking avoid. Do you think I don’t notice when my body stinks of yours?”
The distraction he didn’t want her to be. That could be why he’d showered before Tuck went to bed at the motel and why he’d let Tuck sleep beside her instead of taking the place himself. She knew what it was like to be horny in a room full of Kindred members and unable to satisfy herself. Sleeping beside her love was torture when she wasn’t allowed to play with him.
Instead of leaving her hanging as she feared he might, he grabbed her hips, yanked her to the edge of the counter, and winked before he crouched between her parted legs. He sank his mouth against her core. He licked and teased, tasting her drenched threshold with the tip of his tongue then sliding the stiff point up the center of her body’s seam to torment her clit.
His mouth was amazing, she’d known he loved to kiss from early in their relationship, and he loved cunnilingus almost as much. His mouth inspired ecstasy. Her legs crossed over each other and rested on his back as her fingers rasped through his hair. His thumbs slid between her folds, and he pinched her clit with a pad on either side, letting him roll and arouse the nub while his mouth went south to tongue her opening.
