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He could afford a family of his own, now. Could look at what he had with pride. But he was a rough man around the edges, and he didn’t see that changing anytime soon.
Dusty needed a man with more polish than he would ever have. And he knew it. Dusty deserved the best man in the world, and, well, that was just not him.
She deserved someone far more sensitive, for one thing.
She’d told him before he had the sensitivity of a mud-covered rock. She wasn’t far off.
He’d just get these inconvenient bouts of insatiable-for-Dusty lust out of his head andmove on.
Somehow.
He stopped walking, just inside the lobby.Demoness alert.
It was definitely not his lucky night.
There she was. Straight, long blond hair hung down her back. He liked it when it was down like that and not in the ponytails or braids she usually wore. Ben instantly wanted to bury his hands in that hair and just hold her still while he kissed the hell right out of her.
Tell her he’d missed her this week.
Ask if she’d missedhim.
It was like he’d just found his entire reason for being, right there in the lobby of the Talley Inn.
Totally insane.
She was next to Marin—who made a man’s brain fly right out of his head with one look—but he barely noticed her cousin at all now. How could he? She only had half the succubus power that Dusty did.
It was all Destiny Marie for him now. She was casting her spell over him, and he was just hers. He rubbed a hand over his mouth, checking for damned drool.
Nothing. Thankfully.
A man had to have some pride.
There was another man at the desk, a guest from the looks of him. Ben waited his turn patiently. Well, mostly patiently.
The man wanted to linger, and why wouldn’t he? Marin and Dusty side by side were the stuff legends were made of. Wars had been fought for women demons like these two—and not just because of how they looked.
It was the way theywere.The beckoning smiles on those lips, the fire in those eyes. The inner female knowledge he’d never been able to find words to describe. He’d definitely tried. For over a week, he’d been trying to describe the power Sasha held over Harry.
He pulled back on the drool and smiled at the woman whodidn’tburn his insides. “Hey, gorgeous.”
“Hey, handsome. What can I do for you tonight?” She shot a sly look at her cousin. He strongly suspected this womanknewexactly how he felt about Dusty.
Marin justknewthings.
Ben just accepted that Marin justknewthings.
There were some things that justwere.
He’d long learned to be okay with that.
“I blew the wiring in my building, and I’m on a deadline. I’ll probably need a room for a week or so. I need power, heat, routine food I don’t have to take the time to make, and to be left alone until the book is done.” And if he was lucky, the hottest woman on the planet in his bed. But that would never happen. Hell, Dusty was right there, looking at him with those beautiful green eyes, his cousin Maggie’s big yellow dog right next to her. “Just tuck me in the top corner of your attic, and I’ll be just fine.”
“Will do, Mr. Tyler Bennett, sir,” Marin cooed, fluttering her lashes. “Wecouldlet you have a suite in the family wing, for additional privacy, if you’d like. But the dining room doesn’t deliver in there, and you’d have to emerge occasionally. If you are a regular guest, all you’ll have to do is place an order and someone will deliver.Everythingyou could want. So what will it be?”
Oh yeah. That would definitely work. Let him behind that secure door to the family wing every night. Just a few damned feet from Dusty. The demoness who’d already lured him right to where he stood.
She had to have cast a spell on him.
