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"So another man would work just as well for you?"
The answer spilled out of her "Only you" A dangerous confession, but Sophia didn’t have tiames Bitterness threatened to rise in a sharp, acidic burst, but she crushed it, deterer "Only ever you"
Max sucked in a breath, swearing low in his throat "Good--because I sure as hell a kind" With that harsh statement of claim--and she understood that that was exactly what it was--he turned to the door "I’ll be back in a second"
Max leaned against the wall outside the ulps The cool air did little to clear the scent of Sophia fro he wanted
And she was Psy
Just nohen he’d touched her, when she’d touched him, her eyes had drowned in black No iris, no pupil, no whites, nothing but an endless spread of black It had shaken him, not because he was afraid--but because it was a reulf between them He’d seen the PsyNet in her eyes, a vast emptiness that he could never enter, and she could never leave
Sascha Duncan did, his mind whispered
The elevator doors opened on the heels of that thought, disgorging Quentin Gareth, one of the two men Max and Sophia hadn’t been able to initially identify on the security footage
"Detective Shannon" The hts "I was told you had questions foroff the wall, he opened the door to find Sophia sitting in a chair on the other side of the table
The distance did nothing to eli tension between them, so thick and hotly sexual that Max wondered how Gareth could miss it
"Detective," the man said as soon as they were seated, "if this could be as fast as possible, I’d appreciate it I’m scheduled to catch an airjet to Dubai"
Max are of Gareth’s travel plans, but unlike with huh up in the power structure--were far less of a flight risk Nikita could track Quentin Gareth across the PsyNet if it ca with the victim," he said in a tone he kept casual Maybe Psy didn’t feel, but fro and ed, but Edward reconfir covered a nueneral ideas for expansion--anted to talk before I got caught up with the Dubai negotiations and he with his own projects"
Responding to Max’s questions, Gareth told theeted Edward Chan Max ended the interview on that point "We need deep background checks on all four possibles," he said to Sophia after Gareth left "My gut says Marsha is clean, but she could have a skeleton in her closet that leaves her open to black on it" Her voice was husky, a rough caress, a reminder of the sensual fever that had almost consumed them earlier "I have contacts in Justice who can do it under the radar"
Max clenched his hand on the ar to release the tension in soht You never did tell ht of boardrooht flush on her cheeks But she didn’t back down "I think we’d need a stronger lock on the door--and I’ainst a hard surface"
The word "pounded" acted like an aphrodisiac, sending his good intentions all to hell "Then you can ride me," he said, his cock a steel rod in his pants "The view"--he ran his gaze over her breasts--"would make me more than happy to be pounded"
"Max," Sophia said in a very tight voice, "if you don’t behave, I’ll--"
It was probably for the best that Andre Tulane, the final individual on the surveillance footage, arrived then He gave them the same basic story as Quentin Gareth
"Any one of them could’ve done it," Max said after the man left, "even Marsha All she’d have needed was a couple of minutes while Sascha went to the bathroo words were practicaleven if her voice continued to rub across his skin in sweet, hot strokes "Maybe But according to ether when she felt Edward die"
Max frowned, thought back "You’re right I’ll confir, Sophia said, "We should listen to the audioout his cell phone, Max played the file "Edward Chan’s bio said he grew up in France"--a sharpening of interest, the first scent of their prey--"so that’s got to be him Which means Chan welcomed someone back into his apartment just prior to his death The ti up, he walked to lean back against the table beside Sophia, unable to resist running his finger down her ar tends to clear Ryan Asquith, even if he is a telekinetic"
She shivered but didn’t pull away, her hand dangerously close to his thigh He wanted her to raise it, place it on hie, he focused on her mouth instead "Yes," she said, her lips soft and lush, "Asquith only went inside the apartment at the end But by the same token, he is the newest, least known member of Nikita’s staff"
"Yes"--his own voice was sandpaper rough--"but he wasn’t working for her when the elevator charge was laid" Re the note he’d written while she’d been out of the room earlier, he took it out of his pocket and dropped it into her bag,certain to just barely brush the back of her hand It was a silent continuance of their play, a dare