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“I know,” he said. “And at some point, we’ll have to return to the previous site.”
“Where I met Harry?”
“Yeah.”
“For Minotaur.”
“You’ve been paying attention,” he said, gathering the length of her hair in both hands. “It’s a complex process setting up a new site… And we’ll have to demo the old one.”
“Demo would be fun.”
“I don’t know how I feel about it,” he said, somehow dipping lower as he eased her head back with his grip on her hair.
“Because you grew up there. It was your home.” He’d been born at the original site as it crumbled, which meant the beta site was the only home he knew. “You did all your training there.”
“Met you there,” he said, his mouth coming in close to hers.
Tess smiled. “I was two… and you hated me.”
“I didn’t hate you, I played with you.”
“Something you never grew out of,” she whispered, pushing higher on her toes until their mouths met.
NINE
THE SLIP OF HIS SLOW tongue between her lips was only a prelude to the growing urgency of his need. She’d come to talk to him. She’d snuck away from the hotel to return to the only person capable of reassuring her. The only person she could confide her doubts in. As long as Daire knew what was going on in her head, in her heart, she didn’t feel so alone.
“I didn’t come here for this,” she said as he picked her up to sit her on the counter.
“You owe me one,” he said, his hands moving down across her breasts to her waist and on to her hips. “You said you’d be naked in my bed.”
“I would’ve been if Hugo hadn’t intercepted me.”
He kissed her again. “Now you know why I don’t carry a piece in the house. Too tempting to put a bullet in him.”
The corners of her mouth rose, though she didn’t know if the cause was his joke or the alluring promise of his kiss as it descended to hers again.
“You need his money,” she said between slow kisses.
When Daire began to gather up her skirt, she planted her hands on the counter to raise her ass, giving him room to get the fabric out of the way.
“Need this more,” he said, his mouth still on hers.
“Baby,” she breathed, coiling both arms around his neck. “We need to talk…” His kiss teased her, “about…” felt so good, “the agenda.”
“Mm hmm,” he said, grabbing her ass to yank her to the edge of the counter. “After.”
It was on her tongue to object when he suddenly descended to a crouch, dragging her panties down at the same time.
“Daire,” she said, sinking one hand into his hair when he kissed her inner thighs, drawing her underwear off over her feet. “Oh God…”
Squeezing her eyes closed, she didn’t rate her chances of fending him off. Her resolve became nothing when his tongue slipped into her and then up around her clit. She definitely hadn’t come to him for that kind of special attention.
Other than when he snuck into her dreams, Tess hadn’t thought about sex, not since they’d been so close to completing each other at the weekend. Being alone in her bed upstairs didn’t turn her on either, so she hadn’t satisfied her own needs, probably since before Danny took over that job for her.
“Daire,” she panted, gripping the counter beneath her, clinging on for dear life as he pampered and aroused her into submission.
Gritting her teeth, her breath became quick pants as she desperately tried to hold his name inside her mouth. She couldn’t scream, couldn’t yelp or beg him to keep going. They might be alone in the Beast; that didn’t mean no one else would be within earshot.
