Chapter 9 #2
Oh, she wanted to play that game, did she? He stepped closer, giving in to his wild side, brushing his thigh against hers. He drew a hand down the side of her neck to her collarbone. She sucked in a breath, and her lower lip trembled.
“Just like I’d never be riled by a Castanega.” He moved closer yet, his gaze on her mouth. “But here we are.” His other hand rested at her waist. He saw the flames in her brown eyes, and they touched off a fire inside him.
“Indeed.” She breathed deeply, her gaze dipping to his lips.
He touched his mouth to hers. She put her hands on his shoulders, instantly engaging him. Magick crackled over his skin the same way it did when he used it in combat.
Whoa, what was that?
She opened to him, and he plunged his tongue in, hungry for her.
She let out a soft sound, snuggling her body into his.
He squeezed her waist and then dragged his hands down her hips.
He rubbed his knee up her inner thigh, drawing another deep breath from her.
She pressed her pelvis against his thigh.
She wanted him too, was just as helpless as he when it came to this crazy chemistry between them.
The realization electrified his kiss. She clutched at him, ravaging his mouth back.
“Okay,” she said between kisses. “You proved your point.”
“What point?”
“That we can’t seem to resist each other.”
“I don’t care about any point.” He pinned her against the counter with his legs, grinding his pelvis into her stomach. Which created a delicious pressure between their bodies. She rocked back and forth, increasing the sweet agony.
“I wish I could chalk it up to being in a dangerous situation, but I felt this zing between us at the station.” she said, kissing down the side of his neck, circling back to nibble on his earlobe. “Even when I didn’t like you.”
“I felt it too and thought it was just as bizarre. Now that I know you, I want you beyond belief. But taking this any further is a bad idea,” he murmured, skimming her breasts.
There were reasons, but he couldn’t think of one just then.
He let out a soft groan as her tongue trailed along the outer shell of his ear.
Because her mouth was so close, he could hear her breathing step up as he cupped her breasts. What a beautiful sound, especially when her breath hitched. He knew plenty of ways to make it hitch even more, to make her gasp and pant and beg for him to take her over the edge.
Maybe it was because he’d already touched her, already knew how to make her arch, and moan, and respond, that made this feel deeper.
But that simple explanation didn’t float.
No, it went beyond that. He didn’t just want to screw her.
He wanted her. And that was the problem.
Because once he’d buried his cock inside that luscious body of hers, and wrapped himself around her, he wasn’t going to want to let her go.
Whoa. Where did that come from? Remember how wrong you are for her.
“If this is a bad idea, why are you still kissing me?” she asked.
He had to force himself to stop, even with his own admonitions ringing through his brain. He settled his hands on her waist, because he couldn’t seem to make himself step any farther away. “It’s that point that I was making, that we can’t seem to resist each other.” He had to calm his breathing.
She looked mussed and shell-shocked. “I can’t imagine what your superiors would think if you took up with a Fringer.” She smoothed her hair in quick strokes.
If only that were the problem.
Was this how his father had felt around the female prisoner? If he felt this way about her, yeah, Kade could understand why he’d thrown everything away to save her.
“I was thinking about you. Your brothers would never forgive you if this progressed.”
“No, probably not. But what you said about not selling my soul…”
His hands tightened on her waist. “I didn’t mean by seeing me.
” His life was going to change dramatically.
He’d lost the V on his arm when he’d been demoted.
Its removal was torturous, inside and out.
When he lost it again, he would have to explain why.
He would not lie to her, because she would mean something if things went any further.
Hell, she already did. “Your family hates me. That’s never going to change.
I’ve arrested your brother, inflicted wounds on several of you.
I know how losing family, identity, and pride tears away everything under your feet.
I don’t want you in that position because of me.
” There. It was a sound argument. “I’m not worth giving up the peace in your family. I know how important that is to you.”
She clutched his shoulders, meeting his gaze with a steely one of her own. “I’ve never run away from trouble, Kade. I try for peace but not at the expense of my heart. Someone recently gave me some excellent advice about that.”
She was killing him. The ache in his chest sharpened, and he forced himself to back away. “It’s dark. We need to stop these attacks. I need to get back to my life. You need to return to yours.”
Her expression dimmed. “To the Guard.”
“Yes.” To his life, at least. Beyond that, his future loomed like a dark hole. His only salvation would be uncovering some plot that exonerated Violet and her clan. “And hopefully your family will forgive you for your lapse in judgment. Let’s go.”