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I tugged off my wet hoodie and tossed it aside With only a tank top underneath, tiny bumps spread over rimace "I can take care of ed my hair back "I’m not helpless, Daemon"

He stood still for a h his body Next second he was in front ofmy chilled cheeks "I know you aren’t helpless, but there are things I would do that you won’t Things I know you could never live with, but I can What would you have done if someone saw you? What would I have done if you were captured or…"

Dae at I could’ve been captured tonight or worse, and he wasn’t worried about how the connection would have caused his own death He orried about me

I don’t knohy I did what I did next Maybe it was everything that had happened tonight Or maybe it was the tone of his voice--the fear behind his words Tooinin one direction and then the next

I clasped his cheeks They arht His skin was smooth and hummed under my hands I leaned in, and he didn’tthat I could do that to hi rowled roughly

I kissed hi the pieces slide throughdesire,I pulled back

"Kitten," he said again, voice strained "You don’t get to do that and then stop That’s not hoorks"

I stared at his

"Not when you’rehim "And you’re ht my mouth to his This kiss was lazy, exploratory…and sensual For once, I wasn’t fighting the depth ofthrough me I deepened the kiss He made a sound in the back of his throat, and his arers found the strands of hair curling at the back of his neck and dug in I couldn’t get enough of hi this way about anyone else I couldn’t re kissed like this by anyone else I’ we kissed, but it seeh

"Wait Wait," I breathed, pulling back slightly I closedin a deep breath "I asped as his hands slid under the hee "But this is really ihn’s house"

Dae his eyes They were luhn’s house?"

I nodded "Yeah, I went into his house"

"Are you a career criminal?" he asked quietly When I shook my head, his lips turned down at the corners "I’ my lip, I prepared myself "I unlocked the door"

"With what…?"

"The same way you would"

A s like that"

Growing uncohtened If we started arguing about what I was and wasn’t supposed to be doing, we’d never get through this "I found stuff And I also et up, but his aravemy hands pri us, Daemon From the moment I moved here" The way his eyes flared, I could tell all of this was going to go over real well I told him about the pictures, the receipts, and the money transfers "But that’s not all Bethany showed up"

"What?" Suddenly we both were standing He backed off, needing space "Did she talk to you about Dawson?"

"Ah, see, she’s not…well, she didn’t respond well to his naave me a cool, measured look "Explain"

"She kind of went alien ninja on rabbed a hair tie and twisted ainst the wall"

His eyebrows shot up in interest

I rolled my eyes "Not in that way, you perv She’s like a suped-up freakin’ , too"

Dae useful?"

I told hi on the fact that most of it didn’t make sense "I think she’s cracked And she flipped out when I iveShe removed me fro away "Besides getting ahold of one of the DOD officers, she was my last hope to find out where Dawson could be"

"I did find so out the scrap of paper "I found this"

Dae

"Do you think DB stands for Dawson Black?"

"It could" He clenched the paper tight "Can I use your laptop? I want to see where this address goes"

"Sure" Iup the co at I didn’t want to tell him about Blake’s potential involve incredibly scary and I had no idea how deep Blake was involved