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A very sexy deeous legs
Ah, hell "So what am I supposed to do now?" He really didn’t know
No, actually, he did know one thing--with absolute certainly He still wanted her
"What do you want to do?" Was that hope flickering in her eyes?
He had to ask "You feel, don’t you, Cara?"
She frowned
"I er" Oh, yes, he knew she felt anger He had the burnt hair to prove it "Love"
A slow nod "I can feel Being a demon doesn’t mean I’m not a woman, Todd I need I hurt I bleed Just like anyone else"
But with a few dangerous extras thrown in for spice He rubbed his eyes "Look, I’ve gotta have soure out just what the hell was going to happen next
Her face paled "I see"
That cold, stilted voice pissed hiht her arainst hiht he was running, like those other fools she’dhis tongue into her sweet ainst his shoulders
He drank in her essence Fought the growing hunger that roared inside hiainst her lips The tox screen was due in first thing thisHe had a job to do and--
And he needed to think
But he was not running
He stepped away froht We’ll finish this--" Whatever this was
She just stared up at him, silent
What was he supposed to say? The woman had just confessed that she was a demon, for Christ’s sake
No wonder the sex had been so damn powerful with her She wasn’t human
Just like she’d told him in his dreams
Oh, yeah, his dreams…they’d have to talk about those babies--and she would have to tell hi when he touched her in his sleep
Cara nodded "I understand" She shrugged, tried to look as if she didn’t care Failed "Do what you have to do"
Dauilty, when he was the wronged party He hadn’thuman "It’s the case, Cara I have to check in by seven thirty I’ the tox screen in for House" Okay, he probably shouldn’t have told her that His big et him into trouble one of these days
"Then you’d better hurry"
No screaain questions
He shoved his hands into the front pocket of his jeans Marched toward the gate on the side of the house Hesitated Shit--he had to go He had to swing by his place, find a shirt with buttons Then hurry his ass down to the station
Todd pulled in a slow breath "This isn’t finished" He said the words without looking at her, because gazing at the woerous to his control
"No" The word drifted to him on the breath of the wind that feathered over his face "It’s not"
He’d be seeing his deain, there was no question of that in his ate
"It was real, you know" Her voice stopped hi that happened between us was real I wanted you, you wanted me Just like hu he’d ever experienced before, that was certain
"Remember that, when you’re away froether, and stop thinking that you screwed a monster"
His fury erupted Todd spun around, hands fisted "Daone Just the faintest trace of her soft lavender scent reht you were athat she couldn’t hear hiht of her only as…
His
Todd’s eyes squeezed shut Hell, he’d known the wolance, and he’d been so right about her
Noas he supposed to do?
Colin was bent over his desk, busily thuh files, when Todd walked into the bull pen As usual, chaos reigned in the detectives’ world Phones rang with shrill cries Voices floated around the room as questions were tossed back and forth between thethe sleep from their eyes
His home away from home
Todd headed for this small desk, directly opposite his partner’s He’d barely taken two steps when Colin’s head suddenly snapped up and his gaze zeroed in on hi on Todd stared back at his partner, saw the slight flare of Colin’s nostrils, then the abrupt tightening of his jaw
He knehat that telltale clenching signified Colin was furious, and froht at Todd
A sigh broke frouy’s attitude He’d put up with enough shit from Colin It was tiht, partner?" Colin murmured when Todd reached the desks
His eyes narrowed "Good enough"
Colin glared at hi up the case"
He knew Todd didn’t kno the cagey bastard knew, but Colin realized that Todd had spent the night with Cara "She’s not a suspect anyuy’s nostrils "You sure about that?"
Very deliberately, Todd placed his hands on top of the old, wooden desk and leaned in over Colin "It wasn’t too long ago when you were screwing a suspect, too, buddy"
"E with us and--"
"--and for a while she looked guilty as hell" His hands shoved harder against the desktop
"But she wasn’t!"
"Neither is Cara!" Not guilty of the murders, anyway, but--