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His hand htly over the pounding pulse in her throat She tried to answer hi, "My pheroned to lure…"
"You mean the way you s lure"
"I don’t release the full scent with you Ilove, there was no way to stop it then, but now, and before, I’ve tried to control it" Okay, she’d let it slip in the interrogation rooht the scent plenty of other tiht
"Just the scent of you arouses men" His voice was thick with tension
"It can"
"You said you weren’t using your ic on me"
"Not to hypnotize you" She hadn’t
Damn, but she wanted the man to kiss her That mouth of his was so close--
"What about the dreaers eased over her collarbone Slid down the vee at the top of her shirt and paused in the valley between her breasts
"I-I didn’t es of her shirt Slid his fingertips under the lace of her black bra Her flesh was so sensitive that when he found her nipple, she gasped with the pleasure that arched through her
Even as she realized that the seductress was being seduced
"Didn’t mean to what?" he whispered, then his ue thrust deep Tangled with hers
Only to withdraw too soon
He gazed down at her, and there was nohis need Or her own
"What didn’t you h
She could still taste hiue "Come to you, that way I-I…in the past, I’ve had to focus my power Project" Hunt
"When I closed my eyes, I just went to you" And it had been wonderful
"It was all real then?" His fingers struht nipple
"Yes, in a-a sense" She licked her lips "The pleasure was real, but it was just a dream" She hadn’t actually been in his room
Hadn’t felt the warht, anyway
His fingers stilled on her breast "How rowled the question at her
Anger was in his tone But so was…hurt? Cara lifted her hands Curled her fingers over the hard muscles in his arms "They don’t matter The only one that matters now is you" She meant that
Drea with Todd, it was real, he was real, and the way he made her feel--
Like a real woman
Not just a de of stubble rasped along her palm "I want to be with you Not the cop and the deations Suspicions "Just the man and the wo was between them
And she wanted to find out just what it was
Could be hard, hot lust A lust that would burn out with the poundingof their bodies
But
Cara rose just a bit on her tiptoes Wrapped her hand around the back of his neck and urged his face closer to her Their lipsShe kissed hi back, full force
When the elevator lurched, she didn’t pay it any attention She ignored the soft ding of a bell and enjoyed the slow thrust of his tongue and the skilled play of his fingers on her nipple
There was a soft swish, and Todd hurriedly stepped back fro his hand and mouth aith a muffled curse
Cara realized then that they’don its own Dalanced out of the elevator His back was raht "No one’s here"
She didn’t particularly care
But when he stepped from the elevator, her eyes narrowed and she followed him "Todd--"
His eyes burned down at her "I’m always a cop"
The intensity in his voice made her stomach knot
"The cop and the man, they aren’t separate for me I do my job, twenty-four-seven I live this job--and I want to trust you, but--
"
But She felt the word hit her like a slap "I thought ere past this You said you didn’t think I was a killer"
"I want to trust you" The words seemed to be ripped from him "But you didn’t tell o--and even then, you didn’t tell et the details from Gyth"
Because she’d been afraid he’d turn away from her "You don’t understand" She had to s to ease the dryness in her throat
"You don’t knohat it’s like--"
"You’re daht I don’t--and you haven’t told me" A door opened near the end of the hallway, and froured was a stairwell The words snapped out fast as Todd demanded, "Tell me this, baby, are the demon and the woman really separate for you?"
No
Her expression must have answered for her because he nodded "I didn’t think so" Todd wasn’t touching her now Not at all
"We are e are, Cara No changing it"
"I didn’t say I wanted to change" She’d never longed to be human
Not really
"Take rated words had her blinking in surprise Was he saying--
He kissed her, hard "And stay the hell out of anyone else’s drea at her and Todd, with his nostrils flaring A ht her the scent of death and decay, mixed with bleach and the harsh stench of chemicals
A tall, thin woman with coffee cream skin--a woman so beautiful Cara doubted she was human--stepped into the hallway She frohen she saw them
"Smith, just the woht green scrubs Behind her, Cara heard the sound of jazzfrohed "We need to look at the bodies"