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Her eyes were shining A glow inside the darkness Her hand was on his chest, right over his heart

The heart that had always been hers He just hadn’t known--

Her sex contracted, a ripple ofout her name

Release was moments away, but damn it--he never wanted the passion to end

Never wanted to leave her

Her thighs clas The site of her bare breasts torht one nipple in his ain

The warmth of her palm seared his skin Power filled the air Danced over his body

The climax hit him, and the world exploded into a shower of those stars he’d seen Millions of stars Pleasure flooded hi as fully into her honeyed clasp as he could go, and filling her with the hot essence of his release

Her h him and she called his name Her hips bucked, her sex clenched, and the quiver that shook her body shivered through him

He licked her breast as the aftershocks of pleasure huh his system

His hands rose from the cement and wrapped around her

Todd’s head lifted and he stared up at her face

His Cara

The spark of her energy danced in the air, the spark that even noas heating his flesh and sending energy puain, he tasted the ht the devil to possess

And, well, perhaps he already had

The bull pen was all but deserted when Shtly on Danny McNeal’s office It ell after 11 PM, but she kneas still working Though the blinds were drawn in his office, faint light glowed froruff, hard, as it usually was

Her shoulders straightened and her left hand rose automatically to s her head high and her strides long and easy

She saw his eyes widen, just the tiniest fraction, when he caught sight of her

"Dr Smith"

Ah, so she was back to doctor, hmm? Smith placed her report onto his desk "My notes on Cameron Komak’s body"

He dropped his pen "That was fast"

Well, there hadn’t exactly been a lot left to ith

"What’s the determination?"

Now this was the tricky part--but she had a feeling she’d probably be dealing with a lot of tricky cases fro as it had once been In fact, noell, the cases al

The visits she’d been secretly having with E to pay off

All of the Other weren’t evil She was understanding that Accepting that

Smith met his stare directly "Off the record, my belief is that Mr Komak self-combusted"

He didn’t blink "Self-coinated internally--as opposed to an external stiasoline or--"

McNeal held up a hand "Go back to the internal part"

Sih "I think the fire started inside Mr Koion near his heart"

"Shit"

Yes, she’d expected that response He pointed toward her notes "That’s not in the report, is it?"

"My notes list a fire of undeterin" And that was true She didn’t kno the fire had started--just where it had flared to life

"Thanks, Doctor That should be all I need, for now"

A dismissal Her eyes narrowed "Does that mean the case is closed?"

"My detectives discovered indisputable proof to link Kos" His lips twisted "Shortly after Koin, Gyth searched the guy’s apartment and found one of those hell walls that the serials like to keep So, yeah, the case of the Bondage Killer is closed"

"But there will be more, won’t there? More cases like…this"

His chair squeaked as he rose His shoulders were so wide, so strong, and his face--she’d always thought he had the face of a warrior "There have always been cases like this The only difference is that noe aren’t transferring the to you" He stalked around the desk "That gonna be a problehtened her Or, soed to burn Cauy scared her, but S the supernaturals that she kneell Like Colin

And it was definitely past ti ago "They won’t be a probleaze fro feet "But you will be"

Her eyes returned to his face just in tionna bother you, personally, anymore, Dr Smith--"

"Ah, see, now that’s my problem" She closed the distance between them Wrapped her hands over his shoulders "I want you to keep on bothering ue ready

His arainst his chest--his heart

Just where she liked to be held

The kiss was hungry, wild, and held a desperate need--his need, hers

Oh, God, but she’d an to fued his mouth from hers "Nathalia…Hell, babe, don’t tease, don’t let ain when--"

"I’ve alanted you" Her nails stilled against the white front of his shirt "Even when you were such a da to ani to push her away

Tilanced over at his desk and didn’t even try to stop the s a walk down h for her